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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

James M. Cain · 1943 · 158 pages

ConspiraciesFictionGuiltInsurance agentsInsurance crimesAvarice

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Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.

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