The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
by James M. Cain
Copyright 1934 by James M. Cain
Copyright renewed 1962 by James M. Cain
TO
VINCENT LAWRENCE
CHAPTER 1
They threw me off the hay truck about noon. I had swung on the night before, down at the border, and as soon as I got up there under the canvas, I went to sleep. I needed plenty of that, after three weeks in Tia Juana, and I was still getting it when they pulled off to one side to let the engine cool. Then they saw a foot stickin ...