Novels:                                                                                                                               Романы:

(Первоначальное название рукописи 1933г. было: "Bar-B-Que". 
Автор заменил его по требованию издателя, но не участвовал в редакторской правке текста).

[--"Set to the furious tempo of the clicking dice and whirling roulette wheels of Reno, this is the story of a beautiful actress' willful younger sister--and James M. Cain uses this explosive triangle to create realism at its finest! "]
[--New York: [1947]. First edition, Avon Monthly Novels.
Avon Books. Digest Size. 1947 ed.
--Book Description: New York: Avon Publications, Inc., [1957]., 1957. Fourth edition of the paperback original, as rack-size Avon 768. The printing history on the copyright page of this edition treats all four Avon editions, and the second printing of the second edition, as successive printings of the same edition, though each of the editions has a different publisher's number and different cover art. As a result, this fourth edition copy is identified as the "Fifth Printing. March, 1957." Using the printing dates in this copy, it is possible to reconstruct the correct early publishing history of SINFUL WOMAN, as follows: Avon Monthly Novel #1. First edition, in digest-size wraps...Oct 1947 Avon 174. Second edition (first rack-size), with new cover art...Sep 1948 Avon 174. Second printing, same cover.Mar 1949 Avon 599. Third edition (rack-size), with new cover art...July 1954 Avon 768. Fourth edition (rack-size), with new cover art...March 1957 In anticipation of this fourth edition, Cain signed a new contract with Avon on 29 June 1956, giving Avon exclusive rights for three more years to publish and sell paperbound editions of Sinful Woman for no more than 25 cents a copy. The next such edition had to be published within one year of the new agreement, which provided for Cain to receive a $500 advance on signing and another $500 on publication of the next edition. As Cain's biographer Roy Hoopes tells it, Cain was desperate for money at this point in his career, and the $1000 advance from Avon (on a title that they had already been selling for almost ten years) must have seemed a great windfall. One of the two (or perhaps three?) master copies of this contract, signed in ink by Cain, by Avon's executive v.p. Joseph Mann, and by someone from Cain's literary agents, Harold Ober Associates, is included with our VG+ copy of Avon 768, whose publication in March of '57 met the contract's one-year deadline with a couple of months to spare. (http://www.abebooks.co.uk)

[--In 1946 Cain wrote "Nevada Moon", which he intended to sell for serial publication and to the movies. The story originally featured the character Keyes, Edward G. Robinson's character in "Double Indemnity"; Robinson was reportedly interested in pursuing Keyes as a continuing character. "Nevada Moon" failed to impress its intended audience, and so it was put away until Cain dusted it off, rewrote it (eliminating all references to Keyes and "Double Indemnity"), and allowed Avon to publish it as a paperback original. Again Avon changed the title, the published work emerging with the more exploitive "Jealous Woman".
--Cain's only detective narrators are the sheriff in "Sinful Woman" (1948) and the insurance investigator, modeled after Keyes in "Double Indemnity", in "Jealous Woman" (1950); these were published together in a single volume ("Jealous Woman") in Britain in 1955.]

(в первом варианте 1946 г. действовал Keyes, персонаж из "Double Indemnity", позднее автор его исключил).

[--Cain's 1937 serial "The Modern Cinderella" was made into the 1939 movie When Tomorrow Comes, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. Once again Avon agreed to publish the novel as a paperback original, and once again they did not like Cain's title. This time Cain assisted in the renaming process, and "The Root of his Evil" was the result.]

Short stories and Novellas:                                                                                                      Рассказы и Повести:

Collections:                                                                                                           Сборники:

9)The Five Great Novels by James M. Cain (London: Picador / Pan, 1985, paperback) [Contains 5 novels : The Postman Always Rings Twice; Serenade; Mildred Pierce; Double Indemnity; The Butterfly.]

 Non-Fiction Books:                                                                                                         Книги:

[--The author's first book, which in he sets out to illustrate (through satirical pieces written almost entirely in play/ dialogue format) the workings of American government from the Presidential down to the local level. Some of the pieces had previously been published in H.L. Mencken's "The American Mercury," and Mencken is first in the author's acknowledgments, in gratitude for "[giving] me many inspirational talks when my interest flagged."
--With a presentation inscription from the author reading "To Miss Hortense Alden--That she may be enabled to cast her ballot more intelligently at the next election, James M. Cain."]

Articles:                                                                                                                  Статьи:

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The movies Cain received credits for include:
Hot Saturday (1932);
Duchess of Delmonico (1934);
Dr. Socrates (1935);
Blockade (1938);
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1943);
Out of the Past (1947, US) [aka (UK): Build My Gallows High] Screenplay by Geoffrey Homes, with Frank Fenton (uncredited) & James M Cain (as uncredited scriptwriter) based on the novel "Build My Gallows High" by Geoffrey Homes, (Directed by Jacques Tourneur), [starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas].  (Из прошлого; Поставьте выше мой эшафот)

Editor:                                                                                                                       Редактор:

For Men Only: A Collection of Short Stories, Edited and with an Introduction by James M. Cain. (Cleveland, Ohio USA: The World Publishing Company/Forum Books Edition, first printing - January 1944, Hard Cover.)
[Contents:
1. Alexander Wollcott. Histoire de France;
2. Ernest Hemingway. The Undefeated;
3. W. Somerset Maugham. The Vessel of Wrath;
4. James T. Farrell. Twenty-Five Bucks;
5. John O'Hara. Coffee Pot;
6. Irvin S. Cobb. Snake Doctor;
7. Ring Lardner. Alibi Ike;
8. Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Lodge;
9. John Steinbeck. The Harness;
10. John Collier. Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives;
11. Irwin Shaw. Triumph of Justice;
12. Jack Boyle. Boston Blackie's Mary;
13. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Four Fists;
14. Edgar Allan Poe. The Purloined Letter;
15. Ben Ames Williams. The Man Who Looked Like Edison;
16. Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia;
17. Jack London. Semper Idem;
18. Dorothy Parker. Big Blonde;
19. James M. Cain. The Girl in the Storm.
[*--Contents works by Ernest Hemingway, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, John Steinbeck, John O'Hara, James T. Farrell, and J.M.Cain.
--352pp. Short Story Masterpieces by Alexander Woollcott, Hemingway, Maugham, Farrell, O'Hara, Lardner, Steinbeck, Shaw, Fitzgerald, Parker, and Cain, among others--19 in all.
--Wartime short story collection. Includes Irwin Shaw's early work Triumph of Justice.
--Forum Books Edition, Books in Wartime. "Books are weapons in the war of ideas"--President Roosevelt. Book contains first appearance of Cain's "The Girl in the Storm", Steinbeck's "The Harness", plus stories by Hemingway, Woolcot, Farrell, Maugham, Bierce, O'Hara, Lardner, Cobb, London, Shaw, Fitgerald, etc.
--From the introduction: " An annual collection of short stories, in which we have included tales of an earlier vintage, possibly familiar to you but those that have passed the test of time."]