A Hell of a Woman

A Hell of a Woman
	First edition
Author	Jim Thompson
Language	English
Publisher	Lion Books
Publication date	1954
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	208 pp

A Hell of a Woman is a 1954 novel by Jim Thompson.^[1]^[2] It has been adapted for the screen by Alain Corneau and Georges Pérec as Série noire, released in 1979.

Plot

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

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.

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.

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[NY-1] Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.

[2] "A Hell of a Woman". Goodreads.

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