Luane Devore\'s days are numbered.
Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963)..
Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory ).
Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals.
He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen.
About the Author: Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
Told from multiple perspectives, The Kill-Off tells the story of a woman not long for this earth--but who will finally take matters into their own hands, and when? THE Kill-Off was the basis of Maggie Greenwald\'s critically acclaimed film of the same name.
Others want her to stop her malicious gossip--some of which could ruin lives.
Some, like her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the mattress she spends her days resting on.
All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead.
Luane Devore\'s days are numbered
