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The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. 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."
- 356 pp
- Jim Thompson
- 1952
- Fawcett Publications
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.
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Jun 25, 2010 · Noir at its nastiest: The Killer Inside Me. Jim Emerson June 25, 2010. Tweet. Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me" is one of the deepest, darkest films noir ever made -- an unflinchingly nasty, nihilistic piece of work that pulls no punches, literally or figuratively. This is what noir is all about: facing ...
Style. Quotes. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on The Killer Inside Me by James Thompson. Lou Ford first sets eyes on a bum outside the local diner. A deputy, Lou says that he does not believe in force and does not carry a gun or even a nightstick. When the bum sizes Lou up as an easy mark ...
Camren Little, Ph.D. | Certified Educator. Lou Ford is the killer in The Killer Inside Me and the powerful reason for reading the novel. Lou is a complex portrait of the human potential for...
Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977. Publication date. 2014. Topics. FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Suspense, FICTION / Thrillers. Publisher. New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. xvii, 229 pages ; 21 cm.
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.