Bellboy: Blood From A Turnip — Jim Thompson

PERIL PRESS presents:



Mercury Mystery Book Magazine, February 1956

BELLBOY

by Jim Thompson

Oilfield roustabout, theatrical promoter, hotel-worker, editor and newspaperman -- these are a few of the things that have occupied first-rank mystery writer, Jim Thompson. Here he describes some of his experiences in the strange, exciting, often savage world of the bellboys -- ”. . . a topsy-turvy world of upside-down standards and constant temptation . . .”

3300 Words



Collier's, December 20 1952

BLOOD FROM A TURNIP

by Jim Thompson

Collier's SHORT SHORT

1400 Words



This edition includes the illustration that accompanied Blood From A Turnip as well as the covers to both magazines, plus a gallery of 7 cartoons from the two magazines.