James M. Cain

James Mallahan Cain (1892-1977) was an American author. Although his career spanned five decades from the 1930s to the 1970s, he's mainly famous for the crime novels he wrote in the '30s and '40s.


 * The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
 * Double Indemnity (1936 as a serial, 1943 as a novel)
 * Mildred Pierce (1941)