Deadlier Than the Male is a 1942 crime novel by the American writer James Gunn.

[2] While in Reno to gain her divorce Helen Brent discovers the bodies of two people murdered by Sam Wild.

A few days later Wild meets and swiftly marries her wealthy sister Georgia.

It was adapted into the film noir Born to Kill directed by Robert Wise and starring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and Walter Slezak.

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