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Bad Boy [MultiFormat]
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 At thirteen Jim Thompson was learning how to smoke cigars and ogle burlesque girls under the tutelage of his profane grandfather. A few years later, he was bellhopping at a hotel in Fort Worth, where he supplemented his income peddling bootleg out of the package room. He shuddered out the DTs as a watchman on a West Texas oil pipeline. He outraged teachers, cheated mobsters, and almost got himself beaten to death by a homicidal sheriff's deputy. And somewhere along the way, Thompson became one o... more info>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 56269 - Reading Time: 160-225 min.
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Forever After [MultiFormat]
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The life insurance money--wasn't that reason enough for Ardis Clinton to kill her husband? That and his annoying neglect of his loving. But Ardis has the plan--with her dimwitted boyfriend and a meat cleaver she'll be on easy street. But sometimes the best laid plans of mice and unfaithful women often go astray. (Published: 1960)
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King Blood [MultiFormat]
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Blood is thicker than water and that's doubly true for the King family who have built a considerable fortune through decades of ruthless violence and bloodshed such as Oklahoma has never seen. Ike King taught his boys well: when you see something you want all you need is a clever mind, two fists and a powerful hunk of metal. But Ike may have taught them too well. Now the King brothers are using their childhood lessons against their father and each other. Arlie thought he had won the battle when ... more info>> (Published: 1954)
Words: 58326 - Reading Time: 166-233 min.
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Nothing More Than Murder [MultiFormat]
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Joe Wilmot has the nicest movie theatre in his area. Sure it wasn't a major city, but it was something he had built up. The Barclay Theatre still carries his wife's maiden name, but it didn't bother him much--not too much at all. His wife Elizabeth was always fouling things up and Joe was always fixing things. Sure, a few people lost out in their dealing with Joe, but what the hey, this was business. And one thing Joe had learned growing up in the orphanage was that you got to look out for numbe... more info>>
Words: 54480 - Reading Time: 155-217 min.
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Now and on Earth [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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America's low-key high priest of human vice and violently wounded psyches, Jim Thompson emerged from the darkness with his first novel. Now and On Earth is proof that Thompson has always been the bleak and compassionate teller of tawdry terror that critics and fans have come to treasure. Amid the fresh landscape and smooth illusions of wartime California, a young bellboy is tipped into a world too rich in corruption. A lonely down-and-out writer tries to finish just one more book before the bott... more info>> (Published: 1942)
Words: 73274 - Reading Time: 209-293 min.
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Roughneck [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. Follow Thompson through the Great Depression, his young adulthood, marriage and family but with the apocryphal dark wit that is his trademark. He goes from riding the rails in the 30's to getting drunk while working in a morgue only to move on to odd jobs as a baker, a collector, even as a writer of labor history for the W.P.A. Absurd scenarios swirl around t... more info>> (Published: 1954)
Words: 52812 - Reading Time: 150-211 min.
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Savage Night [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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First class criminal Carl Bigelow has a difficult job ahead of him. How can he kill one-time hoodlum Jake Winroy without making it look like a hit? The man is about to turn evidence in to the authorities, threatening to bring the law down on the powerful crime syndicate that runs the city. Allowing Jake Winroy to live could be very bad for the career of Carl's Boss, not to mention several prominent but corrupt Long Island politicians. Luckily for Carl, Winroy's beautiful wife is bored with his d... more info>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 57234 - Reading Time: 163-228 min.
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South of Heaven [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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Thompson's classic novel describes the underworld of desperate men that inhabited the part of Texas known as "South of Heaven" in the 1920's. Laying a gas pipeline with a motley work crew of hoboes, alcoholics, jail-birds, and petty criminals, Tommy Burwell knows that he isn't doing himself any favors. But he cannot extricate himself from the cycle of violence and ruthlessness that ties him to the six-hundred other transients whose fate he shares. (Published: 1967)
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The Alcoholics [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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Dr. Peter Murphy, director of an alcohol rehabilitation center, has faith that with proper help, alcoholics can beat their problem. The orderlies and nurses in the clinic think otherwise; they say the only thing that's going to cure these people is a shot of whiskey. The story seems pretty simple--but not with Jim Thompson! In addition to this internal strife there is an orderly who is a demented practitioner and a nurse who loves to inflict pain. These are just a couple of the nutty characters ... more info>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 41428 - Reading Time: 118-165 min.
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The Cellini Chalice [MultiFormat]
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Mitch Allison is a hustler, and a good one at that. So, when he finds a beautiful antique chalice in a rundown neighborhood, he truly thinks that he has hit the big time. What he doesn't plan on is his past to come creeping up behind him. Suddenly, it seems as if everyone is out to get rid of him. But he will do whatever it takes to get hold of that chalice. Will Mitch be the master trickster in the end, or will he get outfoxed at his own game? Join Jim Thompson as he tells a story of murder, my... more info>> (Published: 1988)
Words: 14267 - Reading Time: 40-57 min.
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The Golden Gizmo [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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One of Thompson's most outrageous works of fiction, the Golden Gizmo incorporates elements of the classic American tall tale with descriptions of the hardboiled criminal underclass of 1950's L.A.. Hustler Toddy Kent seeks out sources of easy money in the most unlikely places thanks to a sixth-sense he has, known as a 'gizmo,' after the G.I. term for something unidentifiable. He does not know how it works; if he did, maybe he could prevent the inconveniences that often leave him high and dry at t... more info>> (Published: 1954)
Words: 49666 - Reading Time: 141-198 min.
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The Nothing Man [MultiFormat]
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Clinton Brown isn't such a bad guy. He's a typical intelligent, handsome, divorced man. Well, there is his ex-wife who won't leave him the hell alone, but besides that he leads a pretty normal life. Except … he's missing something. He is so desperate to recover it that he may have been driven to murder. He's trying to get himself charged with murder, but did he do it or didn't he? Why is he trying so hard to make it look as if he did? What sent Clinton over the edge? (Published: 1954)
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The Rip-Off [MultiFormat]
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In his characteristic style, Jim Thompson creates a world in which nothing is as it seems. With her stunning beauty and overwhelming charm, Manuela Aloe seemed like perfect girlfriend material, but when many strange things occur, Britt Rainstar begins to have second thoughts about his angelic--or demonic--love. If he can survive the attacks of a devil-possessed dog, a trigger-happy skeleton, and a mystery person who pushes his wheelchair down the stairs, then maybe Britt can escape Manuela and t... more info>> (Published: 1985)
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