Fragments of Noir: Killer Inside Me

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Thursday, 13 August 2026

Coming Off Shift #12

Fallen Angel

Apple Pie, Ice Cream

De Gens Sans Importance

The Game

Long Memory

Killer Inside Me (2010)

Man on the Tracks

Terminal

Out of the Past

Last Stop in Yuma County

They Drive By Night

The Vanishing (1993)

Vicki

Hell Drivers

Duel

Twin Peaks

Monday, 6 July 2026

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea that it did ; and you begin to get sore.

Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
1952

Monday, 15 June 2026

Mosaic Noir #235

They Made Me a Fugitive

Reservoir Dogs

Killers Kiss

Godfather

Ossessione

After Dark My Sweet

99 River Street

Bad Day at Black Rock

Carol

Double Indemnity

Changeling (2008)

Sweet Smell of Success

Hard Times

Gun Crazy

Killer Inside Me (2010)

Human Desire

Strictly Sinatra

Ride the Pink Horse

Naked Lunch

Night and the City

Saturday, 21 March 2026

Generally Discarded

The "heroes" in Thompson's fiction are those generally discarded by literature and the crime - fiction genre ; itinerant roughnecks, downtrodden salesmen, grifters down on their luck looking for that elusive big break, ingratiating hotel bellboys and dodgy conniving businessmen. His books are populated by outsiders, alcoholics, sexual predators and losers ; violent psychopaths, megalomaniac lawmen, pneumatic bottle-dyed blondes and, of course, guileless innocents led like lambs to a ritual slaughter.