Presents the classic novel about a young divorcee, Mildred Pierce, who rose up out of poverty to become a successful business woman in spite of the hardships and her selfish daughter.
Walter Huff, an insurance salesman, the suburban wife of a wealthy client, Phyllis Nirdlinger, conspire to trick Phyllis' husband into signing an accident insurance policy that pays double indemnity for railroad accidents.
Reprint of a 1934 novel about a drifter who embarks on a course of destruction when he falls for the wife of Nick, the genial owner of a roadside cafe.