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Author: Jim Thompson
ISBN: 9780679733973

By: Jim Thompson

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CategoryMystery & Thriller
LanguageEnglish
Pages244
Published1952
File size505 KB
FormatPDF
ISBN9780679733973

Key ideas from the book

A hard-boiled crime story set in a small Texas town.
Lou Ford is presented as a deputy sheriff with a carefully ordinary public image.
The story explores the return of a disturbing sickness from Ford’s past.
Murder, policing, and public office form the novel’s central crime-fiction concerns.
Its 1952 publication places it within the tradition of mid-century American thriller writing.

About The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

Published in 1952, The Killer Inside Me is an American hard-boiled crime thriller centered on Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town. To most people, Ford seems merely slow and boring.

Behind that unremarkable public image lies a sickness that nearly led to his confinement when he was younger—and that is beginning to surface again. With its focus on murder, crime, sheriffs, and suspense, the novel suits readers interested in classic American mystery and thriller fiction.

About Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson (1906–1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his stark, psychologically intense crime fiction. Drawing on experiences in journalism, the oil fields, and other working-class settings, he created narrators whose violence, self-deception, and instability expose the darker sides of American life. His major novels include The Killer Inside Me, Pop. 1280, After Dark, My Sweet, and A Swell-Looking Babe. Initially associated with paperback crime fiction, Thompson’s…

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Topics: American literature Crime Fiction Hard-boiled fiction Mystery and detective fiction Suspense Thrillers