Jealous Woman

Jealous Woman

by James M. Cain
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2014

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A salesman, a would-be divorcée, and an insurance policy turn toxic in Reno.


Vegas is a city of lovers, but in Reno, the business is divorce. Six weeks in Reno can erase the darkest marriages, and the only question is how to pass the time -- craps or roulette? Jane Delavan is a roulette woman, a stately beauty from back East who's too classy for the motel where she's shacked up. She's come for a divorce, but her husband has other ideas. He wants an annulment, and in exchange offers to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on himself -- just in case something happens to him before their paperwork goes through. Jane is cunning enough to make sure that, if she wants something to happen, it will. Ed Horner is the insurance agent sent to settle the agreement, and it doesn't take long for Jane to settle him. They fall in love over twenty-five-cent roulette, and soon get a bigger score in mind. In the Biggest Little City in the World, a king-size scheme is brewing.

ISBN:
9781784083519
9781784083519
Category:
Crime & mystery
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
James M. Cain

James M. Cain achieved worldwide overnight fame when he published his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, in 1934. The classics Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce followed, reinforcing Cain's reputation as the great chronicler of crimes of passion, typically set against a working-class backdrop during the Great Depression. His books have inspired many classic movies.

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