I've seen it several times and never get tired of watching Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Let me elaborate a bit on why I think this is such a great book (and, for that matter, such a great movie).īilly Wilder's 'Double Indemnity' from 1944 is one of my favorite movies of all time. That's quite comprehensible, considering that first of all, it's a rather old book which has successfully been adapted into an equally old black-and-white Hollywood classic, and second of all, the story is rather dated and not quite as relevant or interesting today as it may have been thirty, fifty, eighty years ago. Judging by its popularity on Goodreads, not too many people appear to be familiar with James M. So sad and useless what people do for 'lugh' and a pretty face. Tangled layers of intrigue and deceit keep the reader wondering what-the-hell? until the ending. but Walter's co-worker is convinced this is not an accident. It's made to look like he falls off the observation platform of a train, tangled up in the crutches he was using. That's all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.' I had done all that for her, and I never wanted to see her again as long as I lived. I had put myself in her power, so there was one person in the world that could point a finger at me, and I would have to die. I tried not to, but it would creep up on me. Then that passed and I lay there, like a dope. Every now and then I would have a chill or something and start to tremble. She uses good looks to hook an insurance salesman into a scheme to get her husband's life insured for$50K (1930s L.A.) and then plan and carry out the perfect murder. It's her way of life, to hook up with people with money,find a way to kill them, and live off their money.

Phyllis Nirdlinger wants to off her husband.

And hungry to make the whole world happy, by taking them out where I am, into the night, away from all trouble, all unhappiness.' ' In a Scarlet shroud, floating through the night. But there's something in me that loves death. But there's something in me, I don't know what, maybe I'm crazy. Then she began to talk almost in a whisper. She stopped crying and lay in my arms for a while without saying anything. I don't love him, but he's never done anything to me.' He treats me as well as a man can treat a woman.

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