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Love's Lovely Counterfeit is a hard-boiled short novel by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1942. The story is set in a Midwestern town where rival gangsters struggle to maintain control of their criminal enterprises. The work is one of only three of Cain's novels told from the third-person point-of-view.
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- James M. Cain
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- Hardboiled novel
James M. Cain. 3.38. 206 ratings24 reviews. Jacket blurb: "The story is of a man and two women mixed up in some dirty business in a small American city. You ought to worry about yourself if you don't find it exciting." Genres Noir Fiction Mystery Crime Classics Novels Thriller.
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19 de ene. de 2022 · Love's Lovely Counterfeit. By James M. Cain. Suspense. CBS Net. January 17, 1948 Saturday. Robert Montgomery (host) About the gangster who rises to the top on the coat-tails of a reform politician. James Cagney stars as Ben Grace, a gangster torn between his love for June Lyons, a reform politician's campaign manager, and his desire ...
12 de oct. de 1979 · Ben Grace, a member of the organized crime gang that controls Lake City, leaks evidence implicating the leader in murder and tax evasion, leading to a violent struggle to maintain control of the city in face of a reforming mayoral candidate. Print length. 178 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Vintage. Publication date. October 12, 1979. ISBN-10.
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25 de may. de 2023 · The Suspense Project. Publication date. 2023-05-25. Topics. old time radio, suspense. Love’s Lovely Counterfeit was a popular James M. Cain novel about political corruption in a Midwest town. Cain wrote the novel with a sale of movie rights in mind, but studios balked at its theme.
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22 de mar. de 2012 · LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT. by James M. Cain ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 6, 1942. This hasn't the power drive of his previous books; it is less sensational, less emotional, but a cool, hard tale which has a lot of style and speed. It is the story of a chiseler, Ben Grace, who starts out as chauffeur to a mobster and ends up deed.
