The cocktail waitress

Description:

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage. The final novel written by James M. Cain and never before published.

subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Kriminalroman,  Cocktail servers,  Widows,  Fiction,  Man-woman relationships,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, crime,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general