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James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American prose writer and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction . Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications, published from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice—notably ...
- Pop. 1280
Pop. 1280 is a crime novel by Jim Thompson published in...
- After Dark, My Sweet
After Dark, My Sweet is a 1955 American crime novel by Jim...
- The Getaway
The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film based on...
- Pop. 1280
Aug 6, 2020 · The author’s novels, famous for their bleakly sociopathic depiction of American culture, testify to the insanity and abusiveness that surround us. Jim Thompson is the perfect novelist for our ...
- The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson.
- The Grifters by Jim Thompson, Andre Dubus III (Foreward)
- Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson.
- Getaway by Jim Thompson, Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword)
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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Apr 22, 2024 · Jim Thompson (born Sept. 27, 1906, Anadarko, Okla., U.S.—died April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his paperback pulp novels narrated by seemingly normal men who are revealed to be psychopathic. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Thompson worked in a number of odd jobs ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism. The writer R.V. Cassills has suggested that of all pulp fiction ...
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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]
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