Jim Thompson

The Cellini Chalice

by Jim Thompson

Mitch Allison is a hustler, and a good one at that. So, when he finds a beautiful antique chalice in a rundown neighborhood, he truly thinks that he has hit the big time. What he doesnít plan on is his past...

The Killer Inside Me

by Jim Thompson & Stephen King

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers,...

The Rip-Off

by Jim Thompson

In his characteristic style, Jim Thompson creates a world in which nothing is as it seems. With her stunning beauty and overwhelming charm, Manuela Aloe seemed like perfect girlfriend material, but when many...

Nothing Man

by Jim Thompson

The unimpeachable Elenora Villars is the pride of New Orleans. Her magnificent auburn hair is her crowning glory and her benevolence is the talk of the town. Once a nurse to injured Americans in Niagara, Elenora...

The Golden Gizmo

by Jim Thompson

One of Thompson's most outrageous works of fiction, THE GOLDEN GIZMO incorporates elements of the classic American tall tale with descriptions of the hardboiled criminal underclass of 1950's L.A. Hustler Toddy...

The Alcoholics

by Jim Thompson

Volume #1 in the Parsina Saga--The threat of evil has become dangerously real in Parsina. The magic urn containing the demon Aeshma has been stolen. The urn must be recovered because he who frees Aeshma will...

South of Heaven

by Jim Thompson

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by Americaís First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different...

Savage Night

by Jim Thompson

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by Americaís First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different...

Roughneck

by Jim Thompson

Angelineís virtue was intact before she met the prince of Ruthenia...before he mistook her for her cousin, his brotherís mistress and the only witness to his murder...before he exacted his punishment for keeping...

Now and on Earth

by Jim Thompson

The Middle Eastern state of Lobynia had been supplying oil to the U.S.A. for years, but when Colonel Baraka takes over from the king after a coup, there is a change of policy--and the cut-off of oil threatens...

The Golden Gizmo

by Jim Thompson

"Gizmo" is the GI term for the unidentifiable--and that's the way that Toddy Kent has begun to think of the reasons behind the rapid swing of his days. Somehow, Kent seems always to find himself regularly confronted...

The Transgressors

by Jim Thompson

Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's spent too much time in the region's small towns to adapt to another place. And that's all right with him. What's...

Recoil

by Jim Thompson

Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything not to be a prisoner of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence...

The Criminal

by Jim Thompson

Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended Josie Eddleman's life. Nevermind that he was the last one to see her alive....

South Of Heaven

by Jim Thompson

Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making...

Savage Night

by Jim Thompson

Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the state's latched onto his game, the feds take a bite...

Texas by the Tail

by Jim Thompson

To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when...

Now and on Earth

by Jim Thompson

San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time....

Cropper's Cabin

by Jim Thompson

Tommy Carver may be every inch the angry, rebellious young man his teachers and parents accuse him of being. But sometimes, there are reasons for a fury like Tommy's.

Tommy's relationship with Donna, the daughter...

The Alcoholics

by Jim Thompson

Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the...