Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompsons dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and coldblooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A., Thompsons favorite setting. In this novel, Thompsons first major success as a pulp fiction writer, Joe Wilmot, trying to go straight after a stretch in the pen, finds a movie house in a small crossroads that can use a helping hand and someone with half a brain for business. The theaters owner, Elizabeth, isnt the smartest operator around or is she? Joe and the plain Jane Elizabeth decide maybe it would be better for business if they got married. Why not? And then Carol shows up, a bit stale in the eye candy department but ready and willing to servein every way. Theyve got insurance coverage on the movie house their lives would all be better if the place maybe had an accident, a little fire. But things can go very wrong. And in Murder at the Bijou they do. Fans of Jim Thompson will recognize the terse dialogue, plot twists and doublecrosses, and a belief that nothing in the world in good, all of which makes Stephen King say that Jim Thompson is "My favorite crime novelistoften imitated but never duplicated."

Binding: Paperback;258 pages; Publisher: The Devault-Graves Agency; Classification: N/A; Weight: 418.92 g; Dimensions: N/A

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