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To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for..
Walter wanted Phyllis.
Then she wanted her husband to have an accident.
Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband.
Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger.
Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir , gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.
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