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James Mallahan Cain war ein amerikanischer Journalist und Schriftsteller, insbesondere von Kriminalromanen. Auch wenn Cain sich immer gegen diese Etikettierung wehrte, wird er gewöhnlich mit der so genannten „harten Schule“ der amerikanischen Krimi-Kultur in Verbindung gebracht und gilt als einer der Schöpfer des Roman noir.
- Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt (Roman) – Wikipedia
Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt (Originaltitel: The...
- Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt (Roman) – Wikipedia
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction .
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by American writer James M. Cain. The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is considered one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century. The novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time and caused it to be
- Grosset, Dunlap, James M. Cain, Lana Turner, John Garfield
- 1934
James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Cain wurde einerseits mit Kriminalautoren wie Chandler und MacDonald, andererseits aber auch mit Schriftstellern wie Steinbeck und Hemingway verglichen. Cain starb am 27. Oktober 1977 in Hyattsville, Maryland, bevor er seine Autobiografie beenden konnte. Krimis von James M. Cain: Das Baby im Eisschrank (Stories) (1933) The baby in the icebox
"The Baby in the Icebox" is a 1932 short story by James M. Cain and the first of his many works set in California during the Great Depression. Written as a first-person narrative in the style of Ring Lardner, "The Baby in the Icebox" anticipated his first novel published two years later, The Postman Always Rings Twice.
