The Cocktail Waitress

Name: The Cocktail Waitress
ISBN: 9781781160329

James M. Cain

2012·270 pages

Mystery Romance

dark gritty noir

“The Cocktail Waitress will involve you, and then shock you with an ending you'll never forget. This is a true rarity: a reader's novel that's also a literary event.”
— Stephen King

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage...

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The Cocktail Waitress

James M. Cain

Year

2012

Pages

270

Mystery Romance

Praise

“The Cocktail Waitress will involve you, and then shock you with an ending you'll never forget. This is a true rarity: a reader's novel that's also a literary event.”
— Stephen King