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The Criminal

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By Jim Thompson

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On Sale
Aug 5, 2014
Page Count
176 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown Paperbacks
ISBN-13
9780316403962

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$15.00

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$17.00 CAD

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Trade Paperback

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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.

But in a town filled with the likes of an amoral tabloid reporter known only as The Captain, a district attorney who’ll do anything for a confession, and Bob’s parents, who care as little for Bob as they do for each other, guilt and innocence are little more than a matter of perspective.

In a masterfully woven tapestry of multiple points of view, The Criminal explores the nature of guilt and responsibility in a psychological thriller of an entire town under the spell of an act of brutal violence. Jim Thompson unlike you’re ever read him before.

Genre:

  • Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Crime

Series:

  • Mulholland Classic

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals.

Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963).

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jim thompson

Jim Thompson

About the Author

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detectivewhen he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963).

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Sympathy for the Devil
Night Dogs
Night Dogs
A Hell of a Woman
A Hell of a Woman
Texas by the Tail
Texas by the Tail
Bad Boy
Bad Boy
Cropper’s Cabin
Cropper’s Cabin
Heed the Thunder
Heed the Thunder
Pop. 1280
Pop. 1280
Recoil
Recoil
Roughneck
Roughneck
Savage Night
Savage Night
South Of Heaven
South Of Heaven
After Dark, My Sweet
After Dark, My Sweet
A Swell-Looking Babe
A Swell-Looking Babe
Nothing More than Murder
Nothing More than Murder
Now and on Earth
Now and on Earth
The Alcoholics
The Alcoholics
The Getaway
The Getaway
The Golden Gizmo
The Golden Gizmo
The Kill-Off
The Kill-Off
The Nothing Man
The Nothing Man
The Rip-Off
The Rip-Off
The Transgressors
The Transgressors
Wild Town
Wild Town
The Grifters
The Grifters
The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me
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