Double Indemnity by James M. Cain Asian Literature and where love is scorned

and where love is scorned as illusion

a reclusive community of women

and crackling with tension

trying to divine the essence of intimacy

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain Asian Literature and where love is scornedJames M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband.