Nothing More than Murder, Jim Thompson
Nothing More than Murder, Jim Thompson
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Nothing More than Murder

Author: Jim Thompson

Narrator: R. C. Bray

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/25/2011

Synopsis

A love triangle explodes into something more sinister in this crime thriller from "the best suspense writer going, bar none" (New York Times).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.

About Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson is founder and CEO of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA). He received the inaugural ETHOS Award from the Institute for Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) in 2013, and now serves on the ISLE Board.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy on November 30, 2022

This is early Thompson, just his third novel, published in 1949 and is in the style of the sort of literary crime that had come before, Chandler, Hammett, Cain, etc, in dramatic prose interspersed by with low-brow slang, wisecracks and the jargon of criminals of the day. Subsequent novels were more......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on September 16, 2022

When most people mention Jim Thompson, they mention the darkness. And sure, that’s there, but the more I read of him, the more the strangeness sticks out. People tend to regard Charles Willeford as the genre’s great eccentric, but Thompson has to be right up there with him. There’s no real center to......more

Goodreads review by JC on February 08, 2025

2.5⭐ I just couldn't get into this. I enjoyed the dialog but all the characters struck me as flat. It was an interesting plot but it involved folks I just didn't care about.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on September 13, 2021

Thompson's first noir novel and I really enjoyed the unfolding of the insurance scam and then the complete undoing of Joe Wilmot as his enemies start putting the pinch on him from every angle. Fantastic twist at the end, too. Thompson cleverly keeps the details of the scam from us readers early on,......more

Goodreads review by Lee on March 23, 2020

When I had finished my third Thompson novel, I felt like I had been outside walking on a dirt road with a strong wind, I had grit in my teeth. He puts quite a light on the human condition, and you know the light will never get brighter for these folk. His observation on Mrs. Reverend Whitcomb - "I'd......more

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