South

Oklahoma's own Jim Thompson was a great writer of hard boiled crime noir in the 40's and 50's and his books are always quick and entertaining reads. One of his later works, 1967's South of Heaven is a harrowing tale of deceit in West Texas of the 1920's. When people talk of pulp fiction you can't leave out this guy. But he elevated the genre. He was known as the Dime Store Dostoevsky. I'm glad to see the TV show The Low Down giving Thompson his due.