The cocktail waitress
By: by James M. Cain
Edition: 1st Hard Case Crime ed.
Series: A hard case crime novel -- HCC-109; Hard case crime book -- HCC-109.
Publisher: Hard Case Crime/Titan Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781781160329
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Amerikanisches Englisch; Kriminalroman; Cocktail servers; Widows; Fiction
Description: 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 the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage. The final novel written by James M. Cain and never before published.