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RO0oh [Pdf free] Nothing More than Murder Online [RO0oh.ebook] Nothing More than Murder Pdf Free Jim Thompson ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #2186990 in Books Jim Thompson 2014-08-05 2014-08-05Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.25 x .63 x 5.50l, .0 #File Name: 0316403938240 pagesNothing More Than Murder | File size: 15.Mb Jim Thompson : Nothing More than Murder before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Nothing More than Murder: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Mainly of interest to Thompson fanaticsBy Patrick KingThis is not one of Thompson's more compelling crime novels. It is too deeply involved in how a local movie house franchise was run in the 1950s. Joe Wilmot, the protagonist and narrative voice is a thoroughly reprehensible person, not uncommon in a Thompson novel but Joe has absolutely no redeeming qualities. Doc McCoy in The Getaway for example, is resourceful and brave despite his obvious criminal tendencies. Roy Dillon in The Grifters is charming, clever, and has an interesting backstory. William Collins in After Dark My Sweet, is perhaps Thompson's most complex and empathetic character. Joe Wilmot, although a shrewd businessman, is an opportunist with no scruples. Those who do business with him have to for various reasons but no one likes him and neither does the reader. Joe cheats absolutely everyone who's involved with him in trivial ways. The reader soon comes to detest him. The plot revolves around a murderous insurance scam. What you have here that acquires a three star rating is Thompson's wonderful voice, his attention to detail and the complex interesting plot. The Thompson novels I mention above I could not put down until I finished them. Nothing More Than Murder I had to push myself to finish. I really don't want to know these people.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Pretty standard old school mysteryBy Lynne NewvilleThis author was recommended by a friend. This book was run of the mill mid century pulp fiction mystery. Not terrible but not especially good either. Probably won't read more of this author0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Jim Thompson is one of the most underrated ...By Robert FrodingWriters of the 20th century. I have All of his novels and now with Kindle I'm reading them again Nothing More Than Murder is one of my top 5 Thompson books! 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. "The best suspense writer going, bar none."?The New York Times"My favorite crime novelist-often imitated but never duplicated."?Stephen King"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich would have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it...His work...casts a dazzling light on the human condition."?Washington Post"Like Clint Eastwood's pictures it's the stuff for rednecks, truckers, failures, psychopaths and professors ... one of the finest American writers and the most frightening, [Thompson] is on best terms with the devil. Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell."?The New Republic"The master of the American groin-kick novel."?Vanity Fair"The most hard-boiled of all the American writers of crime fiction."?Chicago TribuneFrom the Inside FlapSometimes 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.About the AuthorJim 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). 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