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.