An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.<br><br>First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, <b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b> is a classic of the <i>roman noir</i>. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for <i>The Stranger</i>.
