![]() I had her tell enough so that what happened was clear and, at the same time, not go into details. ![]() ![]() "This girl, like most women, is very reticent about some things – you know, the sex scenes, where she spent the night with a guy. "I've just finished a book called The Cocktail Waitress, where the girl tells her story, and there's some pretty intimate stuff," the author said. Unfortunately, they cannot be disproved either … All I know to do is to tell it and tell it all, including some things no woman would willingly tell … "Ĭain himself said in a 1976 interview that "in my stories there's usually stuff that you wouldn't think any human being would tell at all". "It's in the hope of getting it printed to clear my name of the charges made against me … of being a femme fatale who knew ways of killing a husband so slick they couldn't be proved. Narrated by the widow Joan Medford, who meets two new men in the cocktail bar where she is working – a "handsome young schemer", and a wealthy older man she marries. The Cocktail Waitress is "the Holy Grail" for crime fans, he added. ![]() ![]() The author of classic crime novels including Mildred Pierce – adapted into the acclaimed HBO miniseries starring Kate Winslet – and Double Indemnity, Cain, together with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, "is universally considered one of the three greatest writers of noir crime fiction who ever lived," said Ardai. He called his discovery "like finding a lost manuscript by Hemingway or a lost score by Gershwin – that's how big a deal this is". ![]()
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