The Cocktail Waitress
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| Author | James M. Cain |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Hardboiled novel |
| Publisher | Hard Case Crime |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 978-1-78116-032-9 |
The Cocktail Waitress is a novel by James M. Cain published posthumously in 2012 by Hard Case Crime press.
The last of Cain's novels, this so-called "lost" work was assembled from a number of undated manuscripts by archivist and novelist Charles Ardai.
The Cocktail Waitress resembles Cain's 1941 novel Mildred Pierce in plot and theme, but, in contrast, employs a first-person point-of-view to tell the tragic story of heroine Joan Medford rather than the third-person narration he used in the earlier work.