The Double Indemnity Murder (Paperback)

from susanamper

Who knew that the Double Indemnity murder took place in Queens Village. James M. Cain and Billy Wilder took the bare bones of the story and improved it immensely. In the book we find that the wife and her underwear selling lover are inept killers stupid enough to confess. The book is mostly trial...

from susanamper

Who knew that the Double Indemnity murder took place in Queens Village. James M. Cain and Billy Wilder took the bare bones of the story and improved it immensely. In the book we find that the wife and her underwear selling lover are inept killers stupid enough to confess. The book is mostly trial...

from ajchase

I'm not entirely certain what was significant enough about this case to justify a book. I read the entire thing with a sort of thought bubble hanging over it that said, "Why am I reading this?" It wasn't badly written or anything. I'm just wondering why it was written at all. This isn't a particu...

from Schmerguls

This is undoubtedly the definitive account of this famous case. The author is no Truman Capote but does a thorough workman-like job in telling of the case and the fantastic publicity which it generated in the press from the time it was committed on Mar 19, 1927, till the perpatrators were done to...