Career in C Major and Other Fiction

James M. Cain. McGraw-Hill Companies, $6.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-07-009594-6

Cain (18921977), best known for The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce, shows a different, less hard-boiled sensibility in these previously uncollected pieces. PW found the storiesincluding many magazine piecesuneven. (August)

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