NEW YORK — The characters are pure noir: Pat, a “dark, heavily handsome thick-shouldered” young man; Myra, a “cheesecakey” woman whose “thick blonde ha… ...

Love” from "Twilight Hours" features contributions from, among others, Max Weinberg, Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell.

At first reading James M. Cain's novel of the same title might not suggest screenable material, but the cleanup job has resulted in a class feature, showmanly produced by Jerry Wald and tellingly ...

And they talk the way crime fiction characters used to talk, as crafted by James M. Cain, in a short story rarely seen until now. “Hello there,” she said.

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Cain's “Blackmail” is featured in the new issue of Strand Magazine, a quarterly which has unearthed obscure works by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson and many others.