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A Bad Female (originally entitled Sinful Female) is James M. Cain's little gem of your hard-boiled novel, set in the postwar 1940s of Reno, Nevada. Film celebrity Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gaming town and it is hell-bent on divorcing her conniving customer of a husband, a foreigner with a slick tongue and much accent. But the husband has other ideas, intimidating to marry Neglect Shoreham's neurotic sister if she divorces him. Hollywood bigwigs want to keep carefully the movie star making the pictures that make them millions. And then there's a firearm in the room and a lifeless husband. Do Sylvia take action? Or was it an elaborate suicide? Everyone has a beef and a purpose and an position, and it's essentially up to Sheriff Parker Lucas, the laconic lawman who helps to keep order in his town, to unspool the tangled web. Told in James M. Cain's typically taut and terse prose with deadpan dialogue and bruising story twists, it's a novel by the noir professional that is often overlooked and only the better known The Postman Wedding rings Twice and Two times Indemnity but offers its own tantalizing story. A Bad Female is another fine addition to Chalk Range Catalogs' growing roster of great classic crime fiction.

Category: Crime