The Alcoholics by Jim Thompson

The Alcoholics

Jim Thompson

192 pages first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the state -- even if no one ever does quite...

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