Savage Night, Jim Thompson

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"Little" Biggers rolls into town with a job to do: kill a witness in a way that looks like an accident. He's five feet tall and sensitive about that, and he's worried that the guy in charge sent someone to spy on him. Biggers also has a problem with lingering tuberculosis and banging both women in the house for different reasons.

Thompson really makes you feel the desperation and paranoia and sickness rolling off this story.