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Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction. Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Espite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in The New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson’s literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.

Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction. Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in The New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime.

Now available for the first time in an Roy Dillon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man illy Dillon looks too young, and loves Roy a little too intensely, to be taken for his mother.

Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male strangers nd Carol Roberg seems too innocent to be acquainted with suffering.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Duane Swierczynski, Patrick Loehr, and Paul Wedlake.
• Introduction by John Shirley.
• Color cover art, frontispiece and interior illustrations by Patrick Loehr and Paul Wedlake.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full cloth binding.

External Links

• The Grifters. Centipede Press page for The Grifters
• Jim Thompson (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Jim Thompson