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The Postman Always Rings Twice

James M. Cain

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1934
Pages
Pages 120

A drifter takes a job at a roadside diner, falls for the owner's wife, and helps her kill her husband for the insurance money; they get away with it, until a real accident gets him convicted of a murder he never committed.

They threw me off the hay truck about noon.
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain

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