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The Postman Always Rings Twice (classic Translation)
General Fiction邮差总按两遍铃（译文经典）
(u. S.) James M. Cain
The first super best-seller in the history of American publishing, the pinnacle of hard-boiled crime novels, the undisputed originator of "noir literature/movies", one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, a time-tested classic text that has been adapted for the screen five times. Ruth teamed up with her husband Judd to strangle her husband Albert with a hanging rope in an attempt to defraud her of the personal accident insurance money she had bought for him without telling him. 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, only the characters and events are more typical and dramatized: this time the lover is called Frank, a young and handsome gangster who likes to wander around, and the novel is narrated in the first person from his perspective; The cold beauty is not blonde but black-haired, her name is Cora; Cora's husband Nick is a "greasy, short, dark and curly Greek" who likes to sing a few times when he has nothing to do. He runs a roadside shop that combines a gas station, a car repair shop and a small restaurant. By staging a fake car accident, Frank and Cora murder Nick. Unlike the real case, Cora did not sit in the electric chair this time. After a tortuous and thrilling battle with the insurance company, they also received a huge amount of insurance money. But the story is not over, the real climax has just begun: from then on, contrary to the commonly used sentence patterns in fairy tales, they lived an unhappy life. That kind of misfortune is so deep and desperate that you may even feel that they are worse off than Ruth who sat on the electric chair.
The first super best-seller in the history of American publishing, the pinnacle of hard-boiled crime novels, the undisputed originator of "noir literature/movies", one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, a time-tested classic text that has been adapted for the screen five times. Ruth teamed up with her husband Judd to strangle her husband Albert with a hanging rope in an attempt to defraud her of the personal accident insurance money she had bought for him without telling him. 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, only the characters and events are more typical and dramatized: this time the lover is called Frank, a young and handsome gangster who likes to wander around, and the novel is narrated in the first person from his perspective; The cold beauty is not blonde but black-haired, her name is Cora; Cora's husband Nick is a "greasy, short, dark and curly Greek" who likes to sing a few times when he has nothing to do. He runs a roadside shop that combines a gas station, a car repair shop and a small restaurant. By staging a fake car accident, Frank and Cora murder Nick. Unlike the real case, Cora did not sit in the electric chair this time. After a tortuous and thrilling battle with the insurance company, they also received a huge amount of insurance money. But the story is not over, the real climax has just begun: from then on, contrary to the commonly used sentence patterns in fairy tales, they lived an unhappy life. That kind of misfortune is so deep and desperate that you may even feel that they are worse off than Ruth who sat on the electric chair.
Double Indemnity (original Movie of the Same Name)
General Fiction双重赔偿（同名电影原著）
(u. S.) James M. Cain
The original novel of "Double Indemnity", the pinnacle of Hollywood noir classics. Insuranceman Hef met the businessman's beautiful wife Phyllis, and fell in love without knowing it, and gradually couldn't extricate himself. The two conspired to murder Phyllis's husband through a series of ingenious means in exchange for double the insurance premium. Things plummeted towards the abyss in twists and turns. Hef had tried his best, but in the end he still found that there was a terrible hole in his cognition. Does Phyllis really share his heart? What kind of invisible and unpredictable hands are behind the conspiracy?
The original novel of "Double Indemnity", the pinnacle of Hollywood noir classics. Insuranceman Hef met the businessman's beautiful wife Phyllis, and fell in love without knowing it, and gradually couldn't extricate himself. The two conspired to murder Phyllis's husband through a series of ingenious means in exchange for double the insurance premium. Things plummeted towards the abyss in twists and turns. Hef had tried his best, but in the end he still found that there was a terrible hole in his cognition. Does Phyllis really share his heart? What kind of invisible and unpredictable hands are behind the conspiracy?