In the real-life case, Snyder said she had prevented her husband from discovering the changes she had made to his life insurance policy by telling the postman to deliver the policy's payment notices only to her, and instructing him to ring the doorbell twice as a signal indicating he had such a delivery for her. It is recognized that Cain used the Snyder case as an inspiration for his 1943 novel Double Indemnity Marling believes it was also a model for the plot and the title of Postman. Snyder was a woman who, like Cora in Postman, had conspired with her lover to murder her husband. William Marling, for instance, suggested that Cain may have taken the title from the sensational 1927 case of Ruth Snyder. The title's meaning has therefore often been the subject of speculation. The title is something of a non sequitur in that nowhere in the novel does a postman appear, nor is one even alluded to. The title and explanations of its meaning The text, he hopes, will be published after his execution. The book ends with Frank, from death row, summarizing the events that followed, explaining that he was wrongly convicted of having murdered Cora. Then Cora is killed in a car accident while Frank is driving.
#The postman always rings twice Patch#
With the prosecutor thus having failed to acquire any new evidence, he is forced to grant Cora a plea agreement, under which she is given a suspended sentence and no jail time.įrank and Cora patch things up and plan a happy-family future. Her lawyer tricks her into dictating that confession to a member of his own staff, however, which prevents its reaching the prosecutor.
#The postman always rings twice full#
They do turn against each other, with Cora, not wanting to take all the blame, insisting upon offering a full confession detailing both their roles. As a tactic intended to get Cora and Frank to turn on one another, he charges only Cora with the crime of Nick's murder. The local prosecutor suspects what has actually occurred, but doesn't have enough evidence to prove it. They ply Nick with wine, strike him on the head, and crash the car. Nick recovers and because of retrograde amnesia does not suspect that he narrowly avoided being killed.ĭetermined to kill Nick, Frank and Cora fake a car accident. Cora fells Nick with a solid blow, but, due to a sudden power outage and the appearance of a policeman, the scheme fails. They plan on striking Nick's head and making it seem he fell and drowned in the bathtub. Frank and Cora scheme to murder the Greek in order to start a new life together without Cora losing the diner. There is an immediate attraction between Frank and Cora, and they begin a passionate affair with sadomasochistic qualities (when they first embrace, Cora commands Frank to bite her lip, and Frank does so hard enough to draw blood).Ĭora, a femme fatale figure, is tired of her situation, married to a man she does not love, and working at a diner that she wishes to own and improve. The diner is operated by a young, beautiful woman, Cora, and her much older husband, Nick Papadakis, sometimes called "the Greek". The story is narrated in the first person by Frank Chambers, a young drifter who stops at a rural California diner for a meal, and ends up working there. 2 The title and explanations of its meaning.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library Classics) THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (Novel based on Motion Picture starring Lana Turner & John Garfield) - Unabridged New EditionĬrime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock /.
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks) THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (PANTHER BOOKS. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
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