Jim Thompson (writer) - Major Works

Major Works

  • Now and on Earth (1942)
  • Heed the Thunder (aka Sins of the Fathers) (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 (aka The Golden Sinner) (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)
  • Nothing But a Man (1970)
  • Child of Rage (1972)
  • King Blood (1973)
  • Jim Thompson Omnibus (1983) (republished in 1995)
  • Jim Thompson Omnibus 2 (1985) (republished in 1997)
  • Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988)
  • The Rip-Off (1989)

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