Jim Thompson
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st Black Lizard/Vintage Crime ed.
Physical Desc
133 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution.
One afternoon he meets Fay, a beautiful young widow. She is smart and decent--at least when she's sober.
Soon Collins finds himself involved in a kidnapping scheme that goes drastically wrong almost before it even begins. Because the kid they've picked up isn't like other kids: he's diabetic and without insulin, he'll die. Not...
2) Pop. 1280
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Nick Corey of Potts County, is a simple man, but when he is pushed to far he becomes a killer or makes other people do his killings.
3) The getaway
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.
4) The grifters
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st Black Lizard/Vintage crime ed.
Physical Desc
189 p.
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 95
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
892 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt,...
6) The grifters
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Edition
Widescreen; deluxe ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Killer Inside Me, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.
Everyone in the small town...
Everyone in the small town...
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen classroom ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (26 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bill Nye explains to viewers how the body's digestive system is like a fine-tuned machine that turns food into energy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 19 x 12 cm.)
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village, is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life.
11) The grifters
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son Roy is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job that leads to a beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. Lilly doesn't warm to Roy's girlfriend Myra Langtry, and soon the two women compete for Roy in a battle that quickly turns dangerous.
12) Paths of glory
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
The desolation, cynicism, and futility of war are embodied in this film based on a novel that took as its subject a real incident from World War I. Three innocent French soldiers are tried and convicted of cowardice, after their battalion fails to take a heavily fortified German position. Colonel Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, attempts to defend the men, who were chosen by a random drawing of lots. The General Staff, comfortable and safe behind the...
14) The killing
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of small-time crooks plan a daring race-track robbery--but their well-laid plans go awry.
15) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.