Title: The cocktail waitress
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.
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Amerikanisches Englisch, Kriminalroman, Cocktail servers, Widows, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, general