James M. Cain - Bibliography

Bibliography

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

(with the dates of the first book publication)

• Our Government (1930)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
• Serenade (1937)
• Mildred Pierce (1941)
• Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942)
• Career in C Major and Other Stories (1943)
• Double Indemnity (1943) (first published in Liberty Magazine, 1936)
• The Embezzler (1944) (first published as Money and the Woman, Liberty Magazine, 1938)
• Past All Dishonor (1946)
• The Butterfly (1947)
• The Moth (1948)
• Sinful Woman (1948)
• Jealous Woman (1950)
• The Root of His Evil (1951) (also published as Shameless)
• Galatea (1953)
• Mignon (1962)
• The Magician's Wife (1965)
• Rainbow's End (1975)
• The Institute (1976)
• The Baby in the Icebox (1981); short stories
• Cloud Nine (1984)
• The Enchanted Isle (1985)
• The Cocktail Waitress (edited by Charles Ardai, forthcoming, 2012)