Synopsis Dolly Dillon is a collection agent for the Pay-E-Zee stores. He runs across Mona, a young, beautiful, abused woman who brings out the caring instinct in him. When she tells him about her aunt, who forced her into prostitution, and about the money her aunt has hidden, Dillon also finds that Mona brings out the killing instinct in him.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1990-10-01 | | Series: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard | | Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Note A Hell of a Woman is Jim Thompson's homegrown version of Crime and Punishment. It is a novel utterly devoid of sentiment, where a murderer goes about his deadly business without a prayer of redemption.
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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