Al llegar a un deprimente restaurante de carretera, Frank Chambers descubre que allí vive Cora. Él nunca hubiera imaginado que existían mujeres a las que se podía desear tan desesperadamente. La intensa...

Ante la adversidad, Mildred Pierce no es de las que se queda de brazos cruzados. Por eso no duda en pedirle a su marido que haga las maletas y se marche de casa cuando siente que su matrimonio se ha acabado....

Phyllis Nirdlinger, la joven y bella esposa de un acaudalado hombre de negocios, seduce al agente de seguros Walter Huff para que la ayude a deshacerse de su marido. El plan, aparentemente perfecto, consiste...

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...

'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...

'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEWSerenade is the story of the eternal...

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 WolfeDOUBLE INDEMNITY...

'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...

Séduit par la troublante Phyllis Dietrichson, l’agent d’assurance Walter Neff conspire avec elle le meurtre de son mari après lui avoir fait signer une police prévoyant une indemnité pharaonique en cas...