A Hell of a Woman

A Hell of a Woman

Author	Jim Thompson
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Lion Books
Publication date	1954
Media type	Print
Pages	208 pp

A Hell of a Woman is a 1954 novel by Jim Thompson.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Frank "Dolly" Dillon hates his job working collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, he has a wife named Joyce he loathes, and an account balance which barely lets him pay the bills each month.

Working door-to-door one day, Dolly crosses paths with a beautiful young woman named Mona that's being forced by her aunt to do things she doesn't want to with men she doesn't know, and Mona wants out, any way she can.

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.

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels	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 (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)

Films	The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957) The Getaway (1972) The Killer Inside Me (1976) Série noire (1979) Coup de Torchon (1981) After Dark, My Sweet (1990) The Kill-Off (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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