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Paperback Books by Jim Thompson
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| Publication Date: June 1999 |
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| Publication Date: June 1999 |
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| The Golden Gizmo |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Toddy Kent was born with a talent for finding easy money, but Toddy's gift has the habit of deserting him when he needs it most. When he discovers a seemingly limitless ( and illicit) source of pure gold, Toddy's wife suddenly is murdered and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 1998 |
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| Roughneck |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Incorrigible author Jim Thompson retraces his wild swath across America during the great Depression and World War II. Whether he's getting drunk in a funeral home or drafting a manuscript with the help of a big-hearted prostitute, Thompson is... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 1998 |
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| Texas by the Tail |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Mitch Corley has a girlfriend with expensive tastes and a ruthless wife who refuses to become an 'ex' without major compensation. He needs big money and he needs it fast. Which makes Texas Mitch's natural destination, since nowhere are rich... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1994 |
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| The Getaway |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 1994 |
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| The Transgressors |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| On the day he accidentally killed Aaron McBride, Tom Lord went from being a sheriff's deputy to a man awaiting execution. Because if the law didn't punish him, his victim's widow--or his shadowy business associates--surely would. |
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| Publication Date: February 1994 |
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| Heed the Thunder |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Old Lincoln Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 1994 |
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| Wild Town |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| The place is a frontier boom town where the graft gets collected more regularly than the trash. The hero is Bugs McKenna, a slow-witted, hot-tempered man with manslaughter in his past and much worse in his immediate future. The much worse... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1993 |
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| The Alcoholics |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1993 |
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| Cropper's Cabin |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn't when he'll explode, but who he'll take with him when he... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1992 |
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| Savage Night |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Charlie Biggers comes to Pearsdale, Long Island, under the name Carl Bigelow, to stay at Jake Winroy's boarding house. Jake is recently out of jail, about to testify against some organized crime figures. In this story of shifting identity and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1991 |
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| A Swell-Looking Babe |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| He had dreamed about her. Now, waking to the sweaty southern night, he found both arms clasped around his pillow, the cloth wet with saliva where his mouth had been pressed against it, and he flung it away from him with a mixture of disgust... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1991 |
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| The Killer Inside Me |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Lou Ford is a dull-witted, good-natured good ol’ boy, the sheriff’s deputy and son of the town doctor. He’s also a cold-blooded killer. Told from Lou’s point of view, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a classic, chilling... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1991 |
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| Nothing More Than Murder |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| When Joe Wilmot and his wife, Elizabeth, can no longer stand to live together after ten years of marriage, they concoct a scheme that will allow them to go their separate ways without legal complications and provide Elizabeth with a... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1991 |
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| Pop. 1280 |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Nick Corey, sheriff of Potts County in the South, is an affable man who likes to avoid trouble. But when trouble insists on finding him, he has no choice but to murder, and murder again, and make others murder, too. This book was filmed as |
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| Publication Date: October 1990 |
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| A Hell of a Woman |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| Dolly Dillon is a collection agent for the Pay-E-Zee stores. He runs across Mona, a young, beautiful, abused woman who brings out the caring instinct in him. When she tells him about her aunt, who forced her into prostitution, and about the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1990 |
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| After Dark, My Sweet |
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| by Jim Thompson |
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| William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. His is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal 'accident' in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 1990 |
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