The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime) (Hard Case Crime, 109) - Hardcover

"...serves up ample delights." --Kirkus

"James M. Cain s the Cocktail Waitress does not disappoint." --The Telegraph

"One of my favorites for 2012...highly recommended for crime fiction lovers, and anyone who enjoys strong female leads." --Layers of Thought

"This is the kind of book that makes people want to read Hard Case Crime. It s perfect as an introduction to crime novels or as a refreshing new offering from an old favorite. Cain is truly one of the best and to be given this masterpiece 3 decades after his death is just remarkable." --DNM Magazine

"The Most Exciting Book Release This Fall." --Ask Men

"It s quite unique to be able to read books that were lost from the public for so long...When they are found and we finally get to read them it s almost a gift from a long gone writer who wanted to leave a memory for us to find at a later time." --P*ssed off Geek

"The straightforward and dialogue-heavy writing style in combination with suspenseful and steamy scenes helped me quickly read chapter after chapter." --Icon Vs Icon

"For fans of hard-boiled fiction, and particularly for James M. Cain aficionados, it s all here: the tough talk, earthy dames, shady fast-talkers, and a balancing act down the thin moral line with cold-hearted pragmatism on one side, outright greed and deception on the other, and temptation plucking at the wire." --Sound on Sight

"The Femme Fatale, the love triangle, the desperation it s all classic Cain...Hard Case Crime has discovered another winner from the vaults." --Crime Fiction Lover

"It is vintage Cain, harking back to his greatest and best known novels." --Lez Get Real

"It s always fun to have an unreliable narrator, but it s even better when you don t mind that they re pulling one over on you." --Top Hat Sasquatch

"Rapturously devious, as noir as noir can get." --The Review Broads

"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, a tour de force of perfection in writing." --Books Monthly

"Darkly compelling." --Weekender review

"The ending is a true shocker, and while it's not Double Indemnity or The Postman Always Rings Twice, there's enough of the old magic there to make it well worth the read. --The Guardian

The book s eponymous narrator takes the concept of narrative unreliability to macabre heights, and the book has a piquantly creepy British twist. --The Evening Standard "Books of the Year"

James M Cain achieved worldwide overnight fame when he published his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, in 1934. The classics Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce followed, reinforcing Cain's reputation as the great chronicler of crimes of passion, typically set against a working-class backdrop during the Great Depression. His books have inspired many classic movies.