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Nothing More Than Murder

Nothing More Than Murder - Paperback

by Jim Thompson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jim Thompson, Joe R. Lansdale (Foreword by)Series:Mulholland ClassicPublish date:2014-08-05Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mulholland BooksISBN-13:9780316403931ISBN-10:316403938UPC:9780316403931Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC160ED8W9
Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town--but Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king. Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his leadership, the theater would close in a heartbeat. If it isn't the life Joe imagined for himself, at the very least, it's livable.

Everything changes when Joe falls for the housemaid Carol, and the two can't keep it a secret from Elizabeth. Elizabeth won't leave Joe the theater unless he provides for her...but he's put all his money into the show house.

Carol and Joe's only hope is the life insurance policies they've taken out on each other. 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 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mulholland BooksISBN-13:9780316403931ISBN-10:316403938UPC:9780316403931Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC160ED8W9
Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detectivewhen he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963).

Publisher: Mulholland Books

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Jim Thompson, Joe R. Lansdale (Foreword by)

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Jim Thompson

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