The Postman Always Rings Twice (james M. Caan)
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The first super best-seller in the history of American publishing, it paved the way for all subsequent noir novels and noir movies. Camus bluntly said: Without "The Postman Always Rings Twice", there would be no "The Stranger". The novel is based on a murder of her husband that occurred in 1927. Thirty-one-year-old Ruth, a blonde beauty with "Scandinavian cold eyes", teamed up with her lover, the corset salesman Judd, to strangle her husband Albert with a hanging rope, and tried to defraud her of the personal accident insurance she had bought for him without telling her husband. Sex and murder, continuous media hype, and a large photo of Ruth sitting in the electric chair published in the New York Daily News made the case a national sensation. The plot setting at the beginning of Kane's novel is almost exactly the same as the real case, but the characters and events are made more typical and dramatic...
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