7/2/2023 0 Comments Double indemnity james cain![]() ![]() Over a period of several months, they hatch their plan, which involves staging Phyllis's husband's death by first killing him and then dumping him near the railroad tracks. That way the payoff would be $50,000 ($690,000 in today's currency). He insists that her husband has to die from an accident on a train. For a long time, Walter has been pondering how he could beat the system and defraud the insurance company, so he agrees to be her partner in this crime. His attraction, however, doesn't blind him to the fact that she wants to take out an accident insurance policy on her husband and then arrange an "accident" so that she can collect on the double indemnity insurance. When Walter returns, Phyllis flirts with him, and he finds himself attracted to her. She seems to have some interest in an auto policy for her husband, but she tells Walter she'll call him and let him know when he can come back. ![]() Phyllis is attractive, but she looks a little washed out. Nirdlinger about renewing his auto policy, he ends up talking to his client's wife, Phyllis. ![]() In a city where insurance salesmen are close to the bottom of the social pecking order, Walter Huff rates as "average." Still, he is savvy enough to get through the door and get the prospect talking, except that when he makes a call to a certain Mr. Double Indemnity, published in 1934, is Cain's second novel and is set in the young, booming city of Hollywood. ![]()
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