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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.
No one knows murder better than Jim Thompson and in this incisive foray into the dark dealings of the mid-20th century movie industry, he doesn't disappoint, in the riveting story of a love triangle gone horribly wrong, and just how far one man will go to hold on to a desperate dream.
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Mar 13, 1991 · 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.
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Dec 25, 2011 · No one knows murder better than Jim Thompson and in this incisive foray into the dark dealings of the mid-20th century movie industry, he doesn't disappoint, in the riveting story of a love triangle gone horribly wrong, and just how far one man will go to hold on to a desperate dream.
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Dec 9, 2020 · Nothing more than murder. Sometimes a man and woman love and hate each other in equal measure that they can neither stay together nor break apart. Some marriages can only end in murder and some murders only make the ties of love and hatred stronger. This book proves just that.
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.
If one of them were to be presumed dead, they'd have more than enough money to solve all their problems...No one knows murder better than Jim Thompson and in this incisive foray into...
