Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philander...

Walter Huff is a crack insurance salesman. Going door-to-door, he encounters Phyllis Nirdlinger, a married woman who entices him first into an affair, and then into a scheme to sign her husband up for life insurance and then murder hi...