The mailman always knocks on the door twice.

A brief about the book and the novel is in the list of the modern library for the best 100 novels, and classified as a crime novel based on a psychological plot, or within a pattern of novels known as the noir novels. Frank Chambers narrates the story in the first person, he is a lost young man who stops at a rural restaurant in California to have a meal and ends up working there. The restaurant is operated by a young beautiful woman, Kora, and her much older husband, Nick Papadakis, who is sometimes called "the Greek." Frank and Kora feel an immediate attraction to each other and begin a romantic relationship with sadistic masochistic traits. Kora is tired of her situation, married to a man she does not love and working in a restaurant she wants to own and improve. Frank and Kora plan to kill the Greek to start a new life together without Kora losing her dinner. Publisher Al-Mada, author James Mullahan Kin