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December 6, 2022. Published in 1952, The Killer Inside Me is a true classic of noir crime fiction--a dark, disturbing tale that seems somehow to improve with each reading, in this case, the third for me. The story is narrated by Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff in the small west Texas town of Central City.
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Dec 27, 2021 · In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists ...
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by Jim Thompson. Start Free Trial. Summary. PDF Cite Share. Greg Beatty, Ph.D. | Certified Educator. Before Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, there was Jim Thompson’s charismatic killer Lou Ford....
Mar 13, 1991 · The Killer Inside Me is a chilling portrait of Lou Ford, the twenty-nine-year-old deputy sheriff of a small town in the oil fields of West Texas. Ford is experiencing a recurrence of "the sickness" that triggered a crime in his youth, a crime that his doctor father, now dead, covered up for him.
The Killer Inside Me. The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. [1] In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written." [2] [3]
Sep 18, 2012 · Review: The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. September 18, 2012. Cover of The Killer Inside Me. Brutal. Compelling. And Utterly Absorbing: first-person narration at its finest. “Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he’s a little slow and a little boring.
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