Bellhop / Blood from a Turnip

PERIL PRESS presents:Mercury Mystery Book Magazine, February 1956BELLBOYby Jim ThompsonOilfield 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 WordsCollier’s, December 20 1952BLOOD FROM A TURNIPby Jim ThompsonCollier's SHORT SHORT1400 WordsThis 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.