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Cain, James M(allahan)

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Cain, James M(allahan) (1892-1977)

US novelist. He wrote a series of popular novels in the taut, economical idiom of ‘hard-boiled’ fiction, derived in the main from Ernest Hemingway. Written with compelling power, his major novels - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Mildred Pierce (1941), and Double Indemnity 1943 - were made into key works of film noir during the 1940s.
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