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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Tim Frazer
Gender: Male
An English engineer, part-owner of a little firm that goes bankrupt because of his partner’s extravagant habits. Instead, Tim Frazer became a secret agent and ‘spy hunter’ for a similarly secret British security service, and is successful in that role. He is young, handsome, is linguistically very gifted and has no family of his own. When Francis Durbridge’s novels about him were turned into a TV...