Love's lovely counterfeit - James M. Cain
James M. Cain
LOVE'S LOVELY COUNTERFEIT
First Published in 1942
Lake City is an imaginary metropolis; the people who live there are fictitious, and the situations which engage them invented; they do not represent, and are not intended to represent, actual places, persons, or events.
Chapter 1
Through the revolving door came a tall man with big shoulders, who crossed to the elevators, and after nodding to the starter, stood looking over the lobby. It was the standard lobby, f ...