RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: James M. Cain

Very reliable, aside from perhaps some recent anthologies

Books

• Our Government (Knopf, 1930)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Knopf, 1934)
• Serenade (Knopf, 1937)
• Mildred Pierce (Knopf, 1941)
• Love's Lovely Counterfeit (Knopf, 1942)
• Three of a Kind (Knopf, 1943)
  • "Career in C Major"
  • "The Embezzler"
  • "Double Indemnity"
• Past All Dishonor (Knopf, 1946)
• Sinful Woman (Avon, 1947)
• The Butterfly (Knopf, 1947)
• The Moth (Knopf, 1948)
• Three of Hearts (Robert Hale, 1949)
  • Love's Lovely Counterfeit
  • Past All Dishonor
  • The Butterfly
• Everybody Does It (Signet #759, 1949)
  • "Career in C Major"
  • "The Embezzler"
• Jealous Woman (Avon, 1950)
• The Root of His Evil a.k.a. "The Modern Cinderella" (Avon, 1951)
• Galatea (Knopf, 1953)
• Mignon (Dial, 1962)
• The Magician's Wife (Dial, 1965)
• Cain x 3 (Knopf, 1969)
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
  • Mildred Pierce
  • "Double Indemnity"
• Rainbow's End (Mason-Charter, 1975)
• The Institute (Mason-Charter, 1976)
• Hard Cain (G.K. Hall, 1980)
  • Sinful Woman
  • Jealous Woman
  • The Root of His Evil
• The Baby in the Icebox and Other Stories (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981)
  • "The Robbery"
  • "Vanishing Act"
  • "Dreamland"
  • "Joy Ride"
  • "Queen of Love and Beauty"
  • "Santa Claus, M.D."
  • "Gold Letters Hand Painted"
  • "It Breathed"
  • "The Hero"
  • "Theological Interlude"
  • "Pastorale"
  • "The Taking of Montfaucon"
  • "The Baby in the Icebox"
  • "Dead Man"
  • "Brush Fire"
  • "Coal Black"
  • "The Girl in the Storm"
  • "Joy Ride to Glory"
  • "Money and the Woman" a.k.a. "The Embezzler"

Short Fiction

• "Pastorale" (American Mercury, March 1928)
• "The Taking of Montfaucon" (American Mercury, June 1929)
• "Auld Lang Syne" (The New Yorker, 20 December 1930)
• "Gridiron Soliloquies" (The New Yorker, 21 December 1931)
• "The Baby in the Icebox" (American Mercury, January 1933)
• "Come-back" (Redbook, June 1934)
• "Double Indemnity" (serialized in Liberty, 1936)
• "Dead Man" (American Mercury, March 1936)
• "Hip, Hip, the Hippo" (Redbook, March 1936)
• "The Birthday Party" (Ladies' Home Journal, May 1936)
• "Brush Fire" (Liberty, 5 December 1936)
• "Coal Black" (Liberty, 3 April 1937)
• "Everything But the Truth" (Liberty, 17 July 1937)
• "Two Can Sing" a.k.a. "Career in C Major" (American, April 1938)
• "The Girl in the Storm" (Liberty, 6 January 1940)
• "Money and the Woman" (serialized in Liberty, 1940)
• "Pay-Off Girl" (Esquire, August 1952)
• "Cigarette Girl" (Manhunt, May 1953)
• "Two O'Clock Blonde" (Manhunt, August 1953)
• "Death on the Beach" (Jack London's Adventure Magazine, October 1958)
• "The Visitor" (Esquire, September 1961)

Short Nonfiction

Quite a bit - articles in The Nation, American Mercury, Esquire and other magazines, reporting for the Baltimore Sun, columns in the New York World and for the Hearst Syndicate, and a lot more.

Plays

• Crashing the Gate (1926)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1936)
• 7-11 (1938)
• The Guest in Room 701 (never produced)

Screenplays

• Algiers (1938, with Ashelbe, Henri La Barthe and John Howard Lawson)
• Stand Up and Fight (1939, with Harvey Fergusson, Jane Murfin and Forbes Parkhill)
• Gypsy Wildcat (1944, with Joseph Hoffman, James P. Hogan, Gene Lewis and Ralph Stock)
• Everybody Does It (1949, with Nunnally Johnson, from "Two Can Sing")

Adaptations

• Wife, Husband and Friend (1939, from "Two Can Sing")
• When Tomorrow Comes (1939, from "The Modern Cinderella")
• Money and the Woman (1940, from story)
• Ossessione (1942, from The Postman Always Rings Twice)
• Double Indemnity (1944, from novel)
• Mildred Pierce (1945, from novel)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
• Slightly Scarlet (1956, from Love's Lovely Counterfeit)
• Serenade (1956, from novel)
• Interlude (1957, from "The Modern Cinderella")
• Double Indemnity (1973, TV, from novel)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981, from novel)
• The Girl in the Cadillac, 1995, from The Enchanted Isle)

References

• Hoopes, Roy. Cain (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982)