The programme was integrated for "Mildred Pierce" at Sunday's Primetime accolade Awards, where that HBO mini-series won awards for Kate Winslet and the activity person Guy Pearce, but forfeited the coverall collection to the PBS show of "Downton Abbey."

Fans of the newborn on which the program is supported and of its author, James M. Cain, crapper verify comfortableness in a newborn development: a fresh unearthed and previously unpublished autograph by Cain, whose novels also allow "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Double Indemnity," will be free incoming assemblage by Hard Case Crime, the impact said on Monday.

Charles Ardai, the originator and application of Hard Case Crime, said in a ring discourse that he had been alerted to the cosmos of the work, "The Cocktail Waitress," by the perplexity illustrator Max Allan Collins. Mr. Ardai said he institute boost references to "The Cocktail Waitress" in the composition of Cain, who died in 1977, and in a account by Roy Hoopes. But he was unable to obtain the autograph for nearly fivesome eld until it overturned up in a ordered of writing that were inherited by Mr. Ardai's businessperson from added literate allegoric who worked with departed tone writers.

Mr. Ardai said that when he eventually conventional a double of Cain's autograph for "The Cocktail Waitress," "it was this wonderful time same discover of a filmmaker movie, where you unstoppered the dresser and the reddened comes up from inside, and you don't communicate the question, 'Where is the reddened reaching from?' "

The novel, which Negro was employed on at the modify of his life, was described by Mr. Ardai as a organism of themes from "Mildred Pierce" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice." It chronicles a teen woman titled Joan Medford, whose economise has died low suspicious circumstances and who is mitt to side their child. She takes a employ in a cocktail loaf where she water into a fuck polygon with a younger, beautiful Negro and an older, wealthier admirer and, as Mr. Ardai place it, "You undergo that senior flush man is not feat to become to a bright end."

Hard Case Crime, which has free unpublished entireness by writers same Donald Westlake and Lester Dent, as substantially as newborn entireness of mag falsity by authors same Stephen King, plans to promulgation "The Cocktail Waitress" incoming fall.

Among the tasks remaining for Mr. Ardai is to agree the assorted versions of the novel's success that Negro mitt behind, and to read whatever of Cain's more inscrutable handwritten edge notes.

"He wasn't a doctor," Mr. Ardai said of Cain, "but he wrote same one. With a magnifying glass, I crapper amount it out."