The Golden Gizmo

The Golden Gizmo
First edition
Author	Jim Thompson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Lion Books
Publication date	1954
Media type	Print E-book

The Golden Gizmo is a 1954 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Gizmo is a GI term for unidentifiable and that's what Toddy Kent thinks of his run of good luck lately. Toddy always seems to find himself getting the big break most men would kill for, only for it to slip through his fingers.

References

External links

The Golden Gizmo at Google Books

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels	Now and on Earth (1942) Heed the Thunder (aka Sins of the Fathers) (1946) Nothing More Than Murder (1949) The Killer Inside Me (1952) Cropper's Cabin (1952) Recoil (1953) The Alcoholics (1953) Savage Night (1953) Bad Boy (1953) The Criminal (1953) The Golden Gizmo (1954) Roughneck (1954) A Swell-Looking Babe (1954) A Hell of a Woman (1954) The Nothing Man (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) Texas By the Tail (1965) South of Heaven (1967) Child of Rage (1972) King Blood (1973) Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988) The Rip-Off (1989)

Films	The Killing (1956) Paths of Glory (1957) The Getaway (1972) The Killer Inside Me (1976) Série noire (1979) Coup de Torchon (1981) After Dark, My Sweet (1990) The Kill-Off (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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