James M. Cain, one of the all-time great writers of old-fashioned hard-core crime fiction, who wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, and Double Indemnity among other classics, also left behind an unfinished novel which has recently been published under the title The Cocktail Waitress. It's a little rough around the edges as befits, one supposes, and unfinished novel, but if you're in the mood for a little hard boiled two-fisted noir, this is the book for you.
The Saturday Review of Literature once proclaimed, "no one has ever stopped reading in the middle of one of Jim Cain's books." Fair warning.
It's on our list.
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