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Mar 13, 1991 · by Jim Thompson. 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.
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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Reading Group Guide. Discussion Questions. The Killer Inside Me. by Jim Thompson. 1. In a first-person narration, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford comments to himself, "If there's anything worse than a bore, it's a corny bore" [p. 4]. How does Thompson use dialogue to dramatize Ford's character?