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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 oung, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldnt bring himself to use But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute, and about the money the old lady has stashed away, Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.

His edition features color and black & white artwork, reproductions of old paperback covers and film posters, and is signed by Joe R Lansdale, Patrick Loehr, and Paul Wedlake ound in full black cloth and a gorgeous dustjacket.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Joe R. Lansdale, Patrick Loehr, and Paul Wedlake.
• Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale.
• Color cover art, frontispiecem and interior illustrations by Patrick Loehr and Paul Wedlake.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full cloth binding.

External Links

• A Hell of a Woman. Centipede Press page for A Hell of a Woman
• Jim Thompson (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Jim Thompson