The Magician's Wife Author:James M. Cain Man falls for a woman. Turns out she's married and wants her husband out of the way - permanently. They come to an agreement. Things go wrong. In stark outline, this reads like a retread of Double Indemnity. It's a tribute to Cain's imagination and the depth of his vision of human nature that the novel turns out to be nothing of the ... more »kind. Even with the broad parallels that can't be avoided and a gloomy conclusion that goes with the noir tag, 'The Magician's Wife' is eminently worth being read for its own strengths.« less