Nothing More Than Murder

Nothing More Than Murder is a 1949 crime novel by Jim Thompson.[1]

Nothing More Than Murder
First edition
AuthorJim Thompson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime novel
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Publication date
1949
Media typePrint

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. Wilmot's scheme unravels slowly as he finds out that his predicament was worse than he thought and that his friends and adversaries more vicious. Also known as Murder at the Bijou.

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