Love's Lovely Counterfeit (original) (raw)

Love's Lovely Counterfeit is a hard-boiled short novel by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1942.The story is set in a Midwestern town where rival gangsters struggle to maintain control of their criminal enterprises. The work is one of only three of Cain's novels told from the third-person point-of-view. The book was adapted to film by RKO-Benedict Bogeaus Productions in 1956, appearing as Slightly Scarlet.