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  • Jim Thompson: Five Noir Novels of the 1950s & 60s (LOA #399)

    A Hell of a Woman / After Dark, My Sweet / The Getaway / The Grifters / Pop. 1280

    by Jim Thompson ...
    **A straight flush of 5 noir masterworks by America’s “Dimestore Dostoevsky”—the crime fiction legend who revolutionized the genre with his experimental style."My favorite crime novelist—often imitated but never duplicated." —Stephen King**Here in one deluxe clothbound volume are five chilling crime classics from the writer who blew the top off the conformity of postwar American life in novels of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Getaway

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    The classic heist thriller from "the master of the American groin-kick novel"—the basis for the movie starring Steve McQueen ( Vanity Fair ).Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal career, his shot doesn't hit the mark, everything begins to fall apart. And Doc begins to realize that the perfect bank robbery isn't complete without the perfect ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sharecropper Hell (Illustrated)

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Nineteen-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but he's got some mighty tall odds stacked against him—a brutal sharecropper father, a secret love affair with his wealthy landowner's daughter, a step-mother devoid of maternal instincts, and even his own short-tempered, prideful ways. The odds only get worse when Tommy is fingered for murder in this shocking, twisting ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Killer Inside Me

    by Jim Thompson ...
    The deputy sheriff of a small Texas town hides a dark secret in this classic 1952 crime novel from the author of The Grifters ."Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered." —Stanley KubrickEveryone in the small town of Central City, Texas, loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wild Town

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    In this classic hard-boiled crime novel set in a 1920s West Texas, a convict sprung from jail becomes the unwitting accomplice of the local sheriff.In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time—or the wrong thing, every chance he ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pop. 1280

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women.Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After Dark, My Sweet

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    The classic crime novel about a kidnapping scheme gone wrong from America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky," the basis for the noir film of the same name (Geoffrey O'Brien, poet, critic author, former editor and chief, Library of America).William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution.One afternoon he meets Fay, a beautiful young ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Murder at the Bijou

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompson's dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and cold-blooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A., Thompson's favorite setting. In this novel, Thompson's first major success as a pulp fiction writer, Joe Wilmot, trying to go straight after a stretch in the pen, finds a movie house in a small crossroads ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Savage Night

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    From "best suspense writer going, bar none" a noir novel about an assassin who becomes romantically involved with the women in his next victim's life ( New York Times).Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the state's latched onto his game, the feds take a bite and the lawyer fees eat ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Heed the Thunder

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    In the rural town of Verdon, Nebraska, in the early days of the 20th century, you can't go ten feet without running into one of the Fargos. So, Grant Fargo argues to his grandfather Lincoln, it's perfectly all right that he's desperately in love with his first cousin, Bella-she's the only source of intelligent conversation for miles, and in a town like Verdon, it would be hard not to end up with a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • At the Table of Jim Thompson

    by William Warren, Chefs of the Jim Thompson restaurants, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni ...
    Having gained international renown as Bangkok's most 'celebrated social center', the house Jim Thompson built on the banks of the Klong Maha Nag still preserves the spirit and the legend of the man. The Jim Thompson house, as it is popularly known, was the setting for many parties and dinners which Jim Thompson hosted during his time in Thailand. These were always major social events, and the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Swell-Looking Babe

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    A man is drawn into a murder in "one of Jim Thompson's best. . . . sharp and markedly individual studies in crime and punishment . . . a rattling good story'' ( New York Times).It was supposed to be only a temporary job—something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his feet back on the ground and raise enough money for medical school. After all, there's nothing wrong with being a bellboy at a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook