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When Thompson's fortunes were fading, he made the acquaintance of writer Harlan Ellison who had long admired Thompson's books. Though Thompson still drank heavily (preferring to meet at the famed writer's haunt, the Musso & Frank Grill) and Ellison was a teetotaler (preferring fast food restaurants), they often met for meals and conversation ...
Lou Ford later appears in Thompson's novel Wild Town (1957). The Lou Ford character in Wild Town is a mirror image of the one in The Killer Inside Me.In Wild Town Lou Ford is also a sheriff, he also plays the fool, and he is also smarter and more capable than anyone else in the small town although he keeps it well hidden.
The Transgressors is a crime novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1961.It is one of a very few Thompson novels to feature a traditional love story as a major part of the plot where the lovers have a happy ending together rather than one murdering or betraying the other as is the norm in most of Thompson's novels.
Pop. 1280 is a crime novel by Jim Thompson published in 1964. [1] [2] Set in the fictional town of Pottsville during the early 20th century, the novel follows Nick Corey, a seemingly dim-witted sheriff whose pleasant exterior hides a scheming, psychopathic personality. He holds a deeply cynical view of his town and views his place there as ...
Wild Town is a crime novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1957. [1] It weaves together threads of murder, embezzlement , blackmail , and seduction in the post oil boom West Texas of the 1920s. The various locations (a hotel , the towns that grow around oil sites) and characters ( Bellboys , Sheriff , Oil Wildcatter ) are all highly influenced by ...
Nothing More Than Murder is a 1949 crime novel by Jim Thompson. [1] Plot
James Thompson (16 October 1964 – 2 August 2014) was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki , where he also studied Finnish , in which he was fluent.
Roy Dillon is a 25-year-old con artist living in Los Angeles.At the start of the novel, he gets hit in the stomach with a baseball bat when a simple con goes wrong. He seems to be well but when Lilly — his mother — visits him for the first time in almost eight years, he starts to deteriorate.