Nothing More Than Murder Free Download Ebook By Jim Thompson
| Title | : | Nothing More Than Murder |
| Author | : | Jim Thompson |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 240 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0316403938 |
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.E 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 herbut 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 than enough money to solve all their problemsNo 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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Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information. James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.Thompson wrote than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the lat Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information. James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.Thompson wrote than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late 1940s through mid 1950s Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in the New York Times, he was little recognized in his lifetime Only after death did Thompson s literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re published in the Black Lizard series of re discovered crime fiction.Thompson s writing culminated in a few of his best regarded works The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop 1280 In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.The writer R.V Cassills has suggested that of all pulp fiction, Thompson s was the rawest and most harrowing that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor even Horace McCoy, author of the bleak They Shoot Horses, Don t They , ever wrote a book within miles of Thompson 1 Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson s work because The guy was over the top The guy was absolutely over the top Big Jim didn t know the meaning of the word stop There are three brave lets inherent in the forgoing he let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it Thompson admired Fyodor Dostoevsky and was nicknamed Dimestore Dostoevsky by writer Geoffrey O Brien Film director Stephen Frears, who directed an adaptation of Thompson s The Grifters as 1990 s The Grifters, also identified elements of Greek tragedy in his themes 
The Killer Inside Me
The Grifters
Pop. 1280
The Getaway
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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 t
240 pagesJim Thompson
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