A Bad Woman (1948) - James M. Cain

Category: Adults, Crime, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: 1940's Hardboiled Noir

Written by James M. Cain
Read by Mike Dennis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A Bad Woman
By: James M. Cain
Narrated by: Mike Dennis
Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 28-04-2015
Language: English
Publisher: The Devault-Graves Agency

A Bad Woman (originally titled Sinful Woman) is James M. Cain’s little gem of a hard-boiled novel, set in the postwar 1940s of Reno, Nevada.

Film star Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gambling town and is hell-bent on divorcing her conniving user of a husband, a foreigner with a slick tongue and a heavy accent. But the husband has other ideas, threatening to marry Miss Shoreham’s neurotic sister if she divorces him. Hollywood bigwigs want to keep the movie star making the pictures that make them millions. And then there’s a gun in the room and a dead husband. Did Sylvia do it? Or was it an elaborate suicide? Everyone has a beef and a motive and an angle, and it’s largely up to Sheriff Parker Lucas, the laconic lawman who keeps order in his town, to unspool the tangled web.

Told in James M. Cain’s typically taut and terse prose with deadpan dialogue and bruising plot twists, it’s a novel by the noir master that is often overlooked in favor of the better known The Postman Rings Twice and Double Indemnity but offers its own tantalizing tale. A Bad Woman is another fine addition to Chalk Line Books’ growing roster of great vintage crime fiction.

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