The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime Book 109)

The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime Book 109)

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. <br /><br />At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer<br /> 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...<br /><br />The last, lost crime novel by one of the greatest noir novelists of all time, author of <i>Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity</i>, and <i>The Postman Always Rings Twice. N</i>ow published for the very first time - including an afterword by editor Charles Ardai!