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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."
The Killer Inside Me won considerable praise in 1952 when it was published, and in the years since, the book has come to be seen as one of the pivotal texts in the American noir tradition. In the ...
First published March 13, 1952. Book details & editions. About the author. Jim Thompson. 156 books1,505 followers. Follow. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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Apr 18, 2017 · October 26, 2020. A compelling, dark, vivid, crime fiction graphic novel, set in the 1950s. Lou Ford, a Texan sheriff, is a psychopath, a lunatic. The story is in the first person and whilst the reader may empathise with Lou, the ruthlessness of his character and actions elicit no sympathy.
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Mar 13, 1991 · Jim Thompson wrote The Killer Inside Me in 1952 for Lion Books, a publisher of paperback originals. Lion gave him a synopsis to work from, but Thompson radically changed the formula to his own, and astonished his publisher by writing the book in four weeks.
Nov 1, 2011 · In The Killer Inside Me, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim 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 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 of all time.Everyone in the ...
It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. But now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again and the consequences are brutal and devastating. Tense and suspenseful, The Killer Inside Me is a brilliantly sustained masterpiece of the roman noir.
