Serenade

Author(s): James M. Cain

Classic Crime

Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences.


Product Information

James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.

General Fields

  • : 9781780220208
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • : 0.216
  • : 01 June 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 August 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : James M. Cain
  • : Paperback
  • : 813.52
  • : 224