Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Criminal The Criminal Jim Thompson A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, ever… OL13420872W
The Rip-Off The Rip-Off Jim Thompson 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 w… OL13420875W
Texas by the Tail Texas by the Tail Jim Thompson 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 na… OL13420876W
Bad Boy Bad Boy Jim Thompson 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… OL13420877W
Cropper's Cabin Cropper's Cabin Jim Thompson 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 expl… OL13420878W
The Golden Gizmo The Golden Gizmo Jim Thompson One of Thompson's most outrageous works of fiction, the Golden Gizmo incorporates elements of the classic American tall tale with descriptions of the particularly hardboiled criminal underclass of 19… OL13420879W
Heed the Thunder Heed the Thunder Jim Thompson 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 Po… OL13420880W
Roughneck Roughneck Jim Thompson 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 adul… OL13420881W
After Dark, My Sweet After Dark, My Sweet Jim Thompson 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 … OL13420882W
King Blood King Blood Jim Thompson Blood’s thicker than water and that’s doubly true for the King family who has built its considerable fortune through decades of the most ruthless violence and bloodshed that Oklahoma has ever seen. I… OL13420883W
The Alcoholics The Alcoholics Jim Thompson 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 … OL13420885W
Recoil Recoil Jim Thompson Pat Cosgrove was a convict in the state's vilest prison, and Doc Luther gave him his freedom. Cosgrove had never been loved, and Luther gave him two mistresses -- one of them the beautiful Mrs. Luthe… OL13420886W
A Hell of a Woman A Hell of a Woman Jim Thompson Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into some… OL13420887W
The Killer Inside Me The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the … OL13420890W