Indeed, Mildred Pierce is pure melodrama. Not a bad book as I
recall,
but slow moving. The one that is really awful as well as
very
melodramatic is "Love's Lovely Counterfeit", a 1942 Cain
effort that
does have a strong hardboiled component. No matter, the book
is
virtually unreadable, as infantile and badly written as
anything by
Spillane.
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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