The Cocktail Waitress

By James M. Cain

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781160325
• ISBN13: 9781781160329
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Hard Case Crime
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"