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The cocktail waitress / by James M. Cain.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF CAIN	Adult Fiction		Chester Hill .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781781160329 (hbk.)
ISBN	1781160325 (hbk.)
Name	Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977
Title	The cocktail waitress / by James M. Cain.
Published	London : Titan Books, 2012.
Description	270 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary	A rerelease of a classic tale by the New Yorker journalist and author of The Postman Always Rings. Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage.
Subjects	Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
	Widows -- Fiction
	Cocktail servers -- Fiction
	Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Genre	Detective and mystery fiction
Series	Hard case crime book HCC-109.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Cocktail servers -- Fiction . Detective and mystery fiction . Man-woman relationships -- Fiction . Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction . Widows -- Fiction . See Also: Adventure stories . Ghost stories . Horror tales . Broader Subject References: Fiction . Authors: Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977 . Series: Hard case crime book .