The first attempt on Papadakis’ life turns out into a veritable circus as the supposed victim cheerfully gets back to life with more vigour after experiencing the mild and irritating rigours of a skull fracture. Cora confesses to Chambers that she can no longer put up with a man who is ‘greasy and stinking.’ Interestingly a full seven decades later a Venture Capital firm of note missed a golden opportunity by ‘offloading’ shares in Apple since its founder, an eccentric by the name of Steve Jobs, due to an unfathomable aversion towards bathing, was intolerably ‘pungent’. The two love birds decide that the only way to permanently tether their lives together would be to snuff out the life of Papadakis.
A woman who according to Chambers, “really wasn’t any raving beauty, but she had a sulky look to her, and her lips stuck out in a way that made me want to mash them in for her.”Īs Cora and Chambers begin to get dangerously close, Papadakis who remains blissfully oblivious to the infidelities of his wife and the insincerity of his employee, becomes an unwitting ‘obstacle’. A chance meeting with Nick Papadakis, a milquetoast Greek migrant, not just lands Chambers a job in Papadakis’ restaurant, but also sets off a clandestine affair with the Greek’s feisty wife, Cora. A scheming plot having carnal contours that at times works like a dream, and at others, flounders like a helpless kite detached from its string, ‘ The Postman…’ represents the dawn of perdition that is sadly mistaken for the onset of passion.įrank Chambers, a drifter, a vagabond and a habitual offender, narrates his story in the first person. Almost nine decades later, he still continues to remain a colossus straddling the genre. Cain wrote this marvelous story in 1934, he was one of the undisputed apex predators of the crime noir. The searing beauty of “The Postman Always Rings Twice” lies in its frightening simplicity.
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