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Mr. Cain's Art
Powell, Dawn | May 22, 1943 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Three of a Kind," by James M. Cain. Cain, in his preface to the book insists rather wistfully that he really has no technique, no theory of sock and twisteroo, in spite of what his critics say. The best story -- and the best Cain has done for a long time -- is Double Indemnity, an insurance murder story. Here the unfamiliar background of insurance intricacies provides protection against charges of implausibility, just as the Dame's pathological passion for death places her outside any ordinary rules for logical human behavior.

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THREE of a Kind (Book); CAIN, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977; HUMAN behavior; SOCIAL sciences; MURDER; INDEMNITY
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