An amoral young tramp. A lovely, sullen girl with an inconvenient hubby. A problem which has only one, grisly answer — a remedy that only creates other problems that no-one can ever solve.

First published in 1934 and banned in Boston because of its explosive combination of violence and eroticism, The Postman Constantly Rings Twice is a vintage from the roman noir. It founded Adam M. Cain as a significant novelist with an unsparing eyesight of America’s bleak underside, and was recognized by Albert Camus simply because the model for The Stranger.

Performed by Stanley Tucci