Synopsis Walter Huff is a crack insurance salesman. Going door-to-door, he encounters Phyllis Nirdlinger, a married woman who entices him first into an affair, and then into a scheme to sign her husband up for life insurance and then murder him for the money. Told in the first person, it is a classic story of how an ordinary person can turn criminal.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1988-05-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Industry Reviews "...More than any other contemporary writer, Cain has become the novelist-laureate of the crime of passion in America." Max Lerner (09/21/1944)
"In 'Double Indemnity' he passes up the blow-by-blow description almost completely....Yet you come away feeling like you have been through a long and extremely violent experience. Cain's trick here--well, it is no trick. It is a feat, one that dates back at least as far as 'Crime and Punishment'." Reference Books - Tom Wolfe
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