After Dark, My Sweet (novel)

1955 novel by Jim Thompson

After Dark, My Sweet
First edition
Author	Jim Thompson
Language	English
Genre	Crime fiction
Publisher	Lion Books
Publication date	1955
Publication place	United States

After Dark, My Sweet is a 1955 American crime novel by Jim Thompson.

Plot

William Collins is a former boxer with a deadly accident in his past. Collins has broken out of his fourth mental hospital and met a con man and a beautiful woman, whose plans for him include murder and kidnapping.

Film adaptation

The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1990.

References

Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.
Farber, Stephen (January 21, 1990). "In the Desert, a Jim Thompson Novel Blossoms on Film". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2012.

v t e Works by Jim Thompson
Novels	Now and on Earth (1942) Heed the Thunder (1946) Nothing More Than Murder (1949) The Killer Inside Me (1952) The Alcoholics (1953) Savage Night (1953) Bad Boy (1953) The Criminal (1953) The Golden Gizmo (1954) A Swell-Looking Babe (1954) A Hell of a Woman (1954) After Dark, My Sweet (1955) The Kill-Off (1957) Wild Town (1957) The Getaway (1958) The Transgressors (1961) The Grifters (1963) Pop. 1280 (1964) The Rip-Off (1989)
Screenplays	The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957)
Film adaptations	The Getaway (1972) The Killer Inside Me (1976) Série noire (1979) Coup de Torchon (1981) The Kill-Off (1989) After Dark, My Sweet (1990) The Grifters (1990) The Getaway (1994) Hit Me (1996) This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) The Killer Inside Me (2010)

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