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All Things Thriller

A Celebration of Thrillers, Noire and Black Comedy by Pamela Lowe Saldana

Tag / Greed

The Word To The Wise…And The Otherwise

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,    and his upper rooms by injustice,who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing    and does not give him his wages, who says, ‘I will build myself a great house    with spacious upper rooms,’who cuts out windows for it,    paneling it with cedar    and painting it with vermilion. Do you think you are a king    because you […]

Two Televangelists, a Prostitute and a Flat Tire; Part II

Recap of Part I: October, 1988–Powerful televangelist and right wing culture warrior Jimmy Swaggart is caught on camera in the company of known prostitute Debra Murphree at a dilapidated brothel motel in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. Fellow Pentecostal evangelist and Swaggart rival/enemy Marvin Gorman prompts the sting. Gorman confronts Swaggart outside Murphree’s […]