Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 63 results for “james m cain”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Postman Always Rings Twice

    by James M. Cain ...
    The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain. The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century. The novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time and caused it to be banned in Boston. ... Read more

    $1.25 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Double Indemnity

    by James M. Cain ...
    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Galatea

    by James M. Cain ...
    A down-on-his-luck boxing trainer finds a woman worth fighting for in this "assured" novel by an MWA Grand Master Award winner ( Kirkus Reviews).It took some doing, but Duke Webster is out of prison. Val Valenty arranged the parole, and now the onetime prizefighter and boxing coach is his puppet, breaking his back on Valenty's farm in exchange for a pittance. But Valenty is about to find out that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Postman Always Rings Twice

    by James M. Cain ...
    The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film.An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cloud Nine

    by James M. Cain ...
    A twisted tale of heinous crimes and hidden motives by the legendary author of Double Indemnity.Graham meets Sonya outside of his real estate office. She is sixteen, beautiful, and drops a bombshell—she's there because Graham's half-brother, Burl, raped her, leaving her frightened, pregnant, and very much alone.All she wants is the $1,111 it will cost to hide out for the next few months in a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Noir Classics

    by James M. Cain ...
    A collection of hardboiled crime fiction from the author of Double Indemnity, "one of the greats of American noir" ( The Guardian).They call him Lucky—but he's never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-year-old hobo just starting to ride the rails, he is hiding in the coal car when the railroad detective comes through. They get into a scuffle, and Lucky's hand finds a railroad spike. . . . ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cocktail Waitress

    by James M. Cain ...
    Discover the lost crime novel by the noir legend behind Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and The Postman Always Rings Twice—now published here for the first time!Following her husband’s death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son.At ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Enchanted Isle

    by James M. Cain ...
    While searching for her real father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess in this gritty noir novel by the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice.With just seventy-four bucks in her pocket, Mandy packs her things and buys the bus ticket that will get her away from the stepfather who's been abusing her for years—and the mother who lets it happen. She plans to head to Baltimore and find her ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mignon

    by James M. Cain ...
    A money-hungry ex-soldier in Civil War New Orleans is seduced into a web of treason and temptation in this novel by "one of the greats of American noir" ( The Guardian).The Union has captured New Orleans, and Bill Cresap has come to reap the profits. A school friend has a line on some easy money, and Cresap is eager to make his fortune. But when he lands in the Crescent City, still nursing a leg ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sinful Woman

    by James M. Cain ...
    In this novel by "one of the greats of American noir," a starlet comes to Reno to start a new life—and end her old one forever ( The Guardian).Sylvia Shoreham's Hollywood dreams came true long ago. Critically beloved for her beauty, talent, and style, she was on her way to international stardom when a bad contract committed her to seven years of trashy comedies and half-baked melodramas. Her ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Root of his Evil

    by James M. Cain ...
    From the author of Double Indemnity, a tale of an ambitious young waitress whose fairy-tale romance may have an unhappy ending . . .Carrie Selden is not at all like the woman you've read about in the papers. Though she spent time in an orphanage, she isn't an orphan. She didn't finish high school until she was nineteen, not because she struggled to make the grade but because she was waitressing ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Past All Dishonor

    by James M. Cain ...
    A naïve young man follows a fallen woman to a Nevada mining town and risks his life to win her: "Entertaining . . . Cain [has a] flair for realistic detail." — The New York TimesEarly 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 territory toward the Southern cause. It's a plush assignment, well out ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus