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'Warning! Hitch-hikers may be escaped lunatics!' A signpost from one of Jim Thompson 's thrillers which sums up the kind of world he wrote about in his novels. Together with Cornell Woolrich and David Goodis , these writers of pulp fiction in the 1940s, are fast becoming recognised as American classics. Hunter Davies investigates.
Producer ANGELA HIND

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Jim Thompson
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Hunter Davies
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