A Hell of a Woman (Crime Masterworks)

✍ Scribed by Thompson, Jim

• Book ID: 108061445
• Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Series: Crime Masterworks
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.

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Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.

SUMMARY:
A Hell of a Woman is Jim Thompson's version of an American Crime and Punishment. In a novel completely devoid of sentiment, 'Dolly' Dillon, a door-to-door salesman, goes about the appalling business of murder without conscience, without remorse and without any hope of redemption, because of a woman . . .