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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.
- Jim Thompson
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Welcome to the world of A Hell of a Woman, Jim Thompson's 1954 hardboiled crime novel chock full of enough psychic mud to smear over each of its 196 pages. The tale's protagonist and narrator, Frank "Dolly" Dillon, a thirty-year-old door-to-door salesman for Pay-E-Zee Stores, epitomizes the working stiff who never caught a break in his ...
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With the small matter of a hidden stash of 100,000 dollars greed, lust and murder all conspire to drag Frank into his own personal hell, gradually losing his mind. As usual with Jim Thompson the delicate balance of life slowly starts to disintegrate as Frank realises that he’s just born to lose.
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Aug 13, 2014 · A hell of a woman. by. Thompson, Jim. Publication date. 1990. Publisher. Vintage Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Mar 1, 2012 · In A Hell of a Woman, Jim Thompson offers another arresting portrait of a deviant mind, in an ambitious crime novel that ranks among his best work.
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Description. Frank “Dolly” Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can’t stand, and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the bills each month.
Oct 3, 1990 · A Hell of a Woman. Paperback – October 3, 1990. by Jim Thompson (Author) 4.0 259 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use.
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