A Hell of a Woman
1954 novel by Jim Thompson
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| Author | Jim Thompson |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Lion Books |
Publication date | 1954 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 208 pp |
A Hell of a Woman is a 1954 novel by Jim Thompson.[1][2] It has been adapted for the screen by Alain Corneau and Georges Pérec as Série noire, released in 1979.
Plot
Frank "Dolly" Dillon hates his job of working collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores. He loathes his wife, Joyce, and has an account balance that barely lets him pay the bills each month.
Working door-to-door one day, Dolly crosses paths with a beautiful young woman, Mona who is being forced by her aunt to do things that she does not want to with men she does not know. Mona wants out any way that she can. Mona and Dolly soon become tangled up in deadly, sanity-threatening scheme.
References
- ^ Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.
- ^ "A Hell of a Woman". Goodreads.
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Works by Jim Thompson
- Now and on Earth (1942)
- Heed the Thunder (1946)
- Nothing More Than Murder (1949)
- The Killer Inside Me (1952)
- Cropper's Cabin (1952)
- Recoil (1953)
- The Alcoholics (1953)
- Savage Night (1953)
- Bad Boy (1953)
- The Criminal (1953)
- The Golden Gizmo (1954)
- Roughneck (1954)
- A Swell-Looking Babe (1954)
- A Hell of a Woman (1954)
- The Nothing Man (1954)
- After Dark, My Sweet (1955)
- The Kill-Off (1957)
- Wild Town (1957)
- The Getaway (1958)
- The Transgressors (1961)
- The Grifters (1963)
- Pop. 1280 (1964)
- Texas by the Tail (1965)
- South of Heaven (1967)
- Child of Rage (1972)
- King Blood (1973)
- Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988)
- The Rip-Off (1989)
- The Killing (1956)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- The Getaway (1972)
- The Killer Inside Me (1976)
- Série noire (1979)
- Coup de Torchon (1981)
- The Kill-Off (1989)
- After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
- The Grifters (1990)
- The Getaway (1994)
- Hit Me (1996)
- This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
- The Killer Inside Me (2010)
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