8. "Past All Dishonor"
This wonderful read is longer than "The Postman Always Rings Twice" but goes by just as quickly. The 1946 novel is another piece of hard boiled fiction from James M. Cain. A young Confederate supporter goes to California, falls in love, sells out everything he believes in for the woman, ends up losing it all. It's not so much what happens as the way Cain tells it. Like his other works, the main character is believable and the setting, during the Civil War, surprisingly doesn't distract from the work.
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