Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompsonâs dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and cold-blooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A, Thompsonâs favorite setti...
Nineteen-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but heâs got some mighty tall odds stacked against him - a brutal sharecropper father, a secret love affair with his wealthy landownerâs...
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. Working door-to-door one day, trying...
Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal career, his shot doesn't hit the mark, everything begins to fall apart. And Doc begins to realize that the perfect bank robbery isn't complete...
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest...
Redefining Social Security to incorporate Health Care Reform is a revolutionary idea that should be considered and debated. This concept provides for an all-inclusive, fair and equitable means to provide for the basic financial securities of all Americans...
The years that followed the bloody Great War, which divided the nation, up through the start of the twentieth century were a remarkable era of growth and prosperity for the towns and villages of Cape Ann. Swift-sailing schooners manned by hardy and able...