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Serenade

James M. Cain

From Shelf: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction

'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEW

'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEWSerenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
224
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
ISBN:
9781780220208
Published Date:
23/6/2011
Dimensions:
197mm x 132mm x 17mm
Weight:
201g
Category:
Crime & mystery

RRP: £8.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781780220208


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