Trifecta

I've been really bad about writing the book reviews on a weekly basis. But I've also been bad about writing post in general for most of the month of January. I will try to do better (I am currently triple booking with The Sea Lady, The City of Ember, and Up the Down Staircase so I should be able to write another review next weekend). Anyway the book for this week's review is "Double Indemnity" by James M. Cain (which is the source material for the movie starring Barbra Stanwyck and Fred McMurray). The book is really short (115 pages) but it really packs a punch! It is the story of an insurance salesman who falls in love with a married woman and is persuaded into killing her husband after taking out a life insurance on the husband (with a double indemnity clause if the death occurs near a railroad track). I love film noir movies (since I saw Murder My Sweet) so I was intrigued to read the book before seeing the movie. But what I think is the most amazing thing is that James M. Cain also wrote two other well known film noir movies: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (which I got from the library a few days ago to read before seeing the movie) and "Mildred Pierce" (I've seen the movie already, which I didn't like too much, so I am hoping that the book will be better). If you like film noir, I definitely recommend reading this classic in the genre.