James M. Cain 1946 Photo: AP / TT
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Cain, James M.
The American author and journalist James Mallahan Cain was a prominent figure in 20th century fiction. Alongside Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, he was among the first authors of "hardboiled" crime fiction that came to influence American noir fiction and film. Many of his works are considered classics, especially the novellas The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Double Indemnity...
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Grue, Anna
Danish writer Anna Grue is an editor and journalist whose crime novels have been very favorably received in her native country and abroad – although she is strangely unknown in Sweden. Grue was born in Nykøbing in 1957. Both her parents were physicians. The family moved on to Randers in 1960, then to Aalborg in 1969. At home, her parents openly discussed diseases and deaths in a professional wa...
