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Jim Thompson book series, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler. Imported from Flickr on Apr 5, 2024. Artwork published in
circa 1990
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After Dark, My Sweet (1955), 1990
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Covers for a series of books by crime fiction writer Jim Thompson (1906–1977), published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard in the early 1990s.

Design by Keith Sheridan Associates with photography by Barnaby Hall. Title and author’s name are shown in Latin Wide, set in diagonal bands. The praise by the New York Times is added in Helvetica breit fett.

A Hell of a Woman (1954), 1990
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A Hell of a Woman (1954), 1990

The Getaway (1958), 1990
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The Getaway (1958), 1990

Recoil (1953), 1992
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Recoil (1953), 1992

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1 Comment on “Jim Thompson book series, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard”

  1. See also The Killer Inside Me (1991), another title from this series, featured in a previous contribution:

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