num_pages: 136
description: DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust. Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the insurance. It'll be the perfect murder ...THE AUTHOR James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.
language: English
title: Double Indemnity
titlecomplete: Double Indemnity
characters: Barton Keyes, Phyllis Nirdlinger, Walter Huff
genres: Classics, American, Noir, Mystery, Novels, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 25677
publisher: Orion