Related: hardboiled – crime fiction – 1900s literature – American literature
Jealous Woman (1950) – James M. Cain
Corgi Edition published 1966
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See also: jealousy
The seminal American writer in the noir fiction mode was James M. Cain—regarded as the third major figure of the early hardboiled scene, he debuted as a crime novelist in 1934, right between Hammett and Chandler.