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Title
Entropic Disintegration: Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, and A Hell of a Woman.
Abstract
The article presents a literary criticism of the noir crime fiction novels "The Killer Inside Me," "Savage Night," and "A Hell of a Woman," all by Jim Thompson. The author explores how each work presents entropic disintegration, examines their fostering of a postwar paranoia of otherness, and discusses the relation to the onslaught of serial killers of the 1970s.