Nothing More Than Murder

from jtck121166

This was my first Jim Thompson, and I have to admit I found it difficult. As a member of the 21st century, and a British citizen, the 1950s USA demotic, especially concerning the minutiae of running a private cinema, was at times for me opaque to the point of impenetrable. The story is told in th...

from jtck121166

This was my first Jim Thompson, and I have to admit I found it difficult. As a member of the 21st century, and a British citizen, the 1950s USA demotic, especially concerning the minutiae of running a private cinema, was at times for me opaque to the point of impenetrable. The story is told in th...

from jtck121166

This was my first Jim Thompson, and I have to admit I found it difficult. As a member of the 21st century, and a British citizen, the 1950s USA demotic, especially concerning the minutiae of running a private cinema, was at times for me opaque to the point of impenetrable. The story is told in th...

from datrappert

Not quite as dark and nihilistic in some ways as the other Thompson I have read, although it's hard to say why. Perhaps it's because for some reason I found myself rooting for the protagonist, Joe Wilmot, even as he sinks into a complicated murder plot. Thompson makes it clear that Wilmot takes a...

from DaveWilde

"Nothing More Than Murder," first published in 1949, was Jim Thompson's first major success and was followed in 1952 by the book most critics agree is his magnum opus ("The Killer Inside Me"). On the surface, "Nothing More Than Murder" might appear to be yet another twist on James Cain's "Double ...