James M. Cain

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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.

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Works by James M. Cain:

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