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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

    $47.99 CAD

  • 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

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Revelation Comes

    A Journey Across the Sacred Links of Scotland

    by Jim Hartsell, Wright Thompson ...
    When Revelation Comes is the story of one man's search for peace. Along the way, he meets people whose compassion and empathy help him keep going. It' s a story about fathers and sons. It' s a story of a friendship between two people from different cultures and backgrounds. It' s also a story of how a game can be a framework for life. On May 17, 2021, an unthinkable tragedy struck a tight knit ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Grifters

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Jim Thompson's classic The Grifters is one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for the critically acclaimed film by Stephen Frears and Martin Scorcese.To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    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

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kill-Off

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    The legendary author of The Getaway delivers a suspenseful tale of an ailing woman who awaits her own murder—until she turns the tables on her would-be assassins.Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Roughneck

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    The hardboiled sequel to the autobiographical Bad Boy , from the author Stephen King calls "my favorite crime novelist—often imitated but never duplicated."By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nothing More Than Murder

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    A desperate dream. A love triangle gone horribly wrong. From the author Stephen King calls "my favorite crime novelist—often imitated but never duplicated."Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town—but Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king. Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Hell of a Woman

    by Jim Thompson ...
    Series series Mulholland Classic
    Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying to eke money out of folk with even less of it than he has, Dolly crosses paths with a beautiful young woman named Mona Farrell. Mona's being forced by her aunt ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    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

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook