About the book: 2004 / James Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, brought the author wide fame. A year later, admirers of the American writer were reading Double Indemnity, Kane’s second book, which again took a strong place on the bestseller list. After the publication of the novel “Double Indemnity,” Ross MacDonald, a classic of the detective genre, remarked: “Kane covered himself with unfading glory by creating, one after the other, two purely American masterpieces.”».