The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
First edition, paperback original, of Thompson’s defining noir novel, narrated by Lou Ford, an outwardly genial small-town Texas deputy sheriff concealing a calculating and profoundly violent inner life. Published without a preceding hardcover edition, The Killer Inside Me is a landmark of American crime fiction and Thompson’s most celebrated exploration of the criminal mind.
New York: Lion Books, by arrangement with Non-Pareil Publishing Company, September 1952. Original pictorial wraps; pp. 160. Binding remains tight. Shelfwear, rubbing and creasing to wraps with faint discoloration to rear wrap. Pages toned as usual, else internally clean. Scarce.