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Nothing More Than Murder is a 1949 crime novel by Jim Thompson. Plot. An unscrupulous owner of a movie theater in a small town, Joe Wilmot, in an unhappy marriage and squeezed by the theater chains, concocts a murderous plot involving his wife and his lover.
“Nothing More Than Murder,” first published in 1949, was Jim Thompson’s first major success and was followed in 1952 by the book most critics agree is his magnum opus (“The Killer Inside Me”).
Jim Thompson's "Nothing More Than Murder" is a slow-moving cat and mouse game told by the despicable and offensive protagonist, Joe Wilmot. Murder and insurance fraud are set against the detailed workings of a small town movie theater.
LibriVox recording of Nothing More Than Murder by Francis Russell. Read in English by Ben Tucker. Joe Wilmot is a big fish in a small pond, running the premiere movie house in town with a wife who hates him and a housemaid who wants to get in his pants.
NOTHING MORE THAN MURDER. by Jim Thompson ‧RELEASE DATE: Feb. 16, 1948. A derivation of the Cain-Chandler formula, this is a barsh tight tale of indemnity and murder -- of Joe Wilmot, small town motion picture operator, Elizabeth, the wife he did not love, Carol, the girl with whom he slept.
A love triangle explodes into something more sinister in this crime thriller from "the best suspense writer going, bar none" (New York Times).Joe W...
NOTHING MORE THAN MURDER by Jim Thompson (Vintage: $9). This darkly sardonic tale by the master of pulp crime fiction suggests just how tangled a web can be woven by those who “practice to...
