The Postman Always Rings Twice

<b>The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th <b>century<b>—that was <b>banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for <i>The Stranger</i>. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film.<br></b></b></b></b><br>An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.<br><br>First published in 1934, <i>The Postman Always Rings Twice</i> is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for <i>The Stranger</i>.