Jim Thompson
1906-1977
 

James Myers Thompson was born on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. He was a novelist and screenwriter.

 

Titles and year of publication:  

 1) Nothing More Than Murder  1949
 2) Cropper's Cabin  1952
 3) The Killer Inside Me  1952
 4) The Alcoholics  1953
 5) Bad Boy  1953
 6) The Criminal  1953
 7) Recoil  1953
 8) Savage Night  1953
 9) The Golden Gizmo (Australian title: The Golden Summer [1955])  1954
10) A Hell of a Woman  1954
11) Roughneck  1954
12) A Swell-Looking Babe  1954
13) After Dark, My Sweet  1955
14) The Kill-Off  1957
15) Wild Town  1957
16) The Getaway  1959
17) The Transgressors  1961
18) The Grifters  1963
19) Pop. 1280  1964
20) Texas by the Tail  1965
21) Ironside  1967
22) South of Heaven  1967
23) Child of Rage  1972
24) King Blood  1973
25) The Rip-Off  1985
26) Fireworks (short stories)  1988

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