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Women's Fiction
'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA... See More
Parenting & Families
'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express 'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe 'It is no accident that movies based on... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A starlet comes to Reno to start a new life -- and end her old one forever. Sylvia Shoreham's Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international... See More
Literary Fiction
A mesmerising novel from three-time Booker Prize nominee Brian Moore _________________ 'A spellbinding storyteller' - Independent 'A tour de force' - New York Times 'Moore is a magician' - LA... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"This entry, with its high-quality stories from such genre masters as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, outshines the typical all-original anthology." -- Publishers Weekly In Akashic Books's acclaimed series of original... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Seventeen gripping tales from one of the toughest authors in the history of crime fiction They call him Lucky - but he has never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-year-old hobo just starting to ride the rails, he is... See More
Literary Fiction
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
For the love of a beautiful waitress, a meat salesman will turn butcher. Clay Lockwood enters the Portico with corned beef on his mind. He's a top distributing executive with Grant's Meats, and the contract with the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A Confederate spy risks his life to win the heart of a fallen woman. Early in the Civil War, the Confederacy sends Roger Duval to Sacramento, to keep an eye on the situation in California in hopes of turning the Western... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
While slinging hash in a diner, a would-be Cinderella meets her Prince Charming. Carrie Selden is not at all like the woman you've read about in the papers. Though she was raised in an orphanage, she isn't an orphan. She... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
One man sells his soul to save an innocent -- who turns out not to be so innocent after all. Graham meets Sonya outside of his real estate office. She is sixteen, beautiful, and showing just the right amount of leg. He's... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A hijacker and his hostage escape to a very strange, very dangerous farm. Since his father died, every Saturday night has been the same for Dave and his mother. She starts by talking -- aimless, weird fantasies about... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
While searching for her father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess . At thirteen, Mandy was too old for spanking when her stepfather first took her over his knee. She's didn't mind the pain, but hated the look in his... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A salesman, a would-be divorcée, and an insurance policy turn toxic in Reno. Vegas is a city of lovers, but in Reno, the business is divorce. Six weeks in Reno can erase the darkest marriages, and the only question is how... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
An academic looking for money finds a woman and trouble instead. Professor Lloyd Palmer loves a good biography. His fantasy is to start an institute to teach young scholars the biographical arts, and it will take old money... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Business & Investing
A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie 'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES 'Cain is the master' Tom Wolfe DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
In these never-before-published interviews, the author of Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Mildred Pierce discusses his first notions to be a writer, his newspaper days, his Hollywood years, and Marilyn... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A Bad Woman (originally titled Sinful Woman) is James M. Cain's little gem of a hard-boiled novel, set in the post-War 1940s of Reno, Nevada. Film star Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gambling town and is hell-bent on... See More