{"product_id":"9780989671491","title":"Murder at the Bijou","description":"Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompson's dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and cold-blooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A., Thompson's favorite setting. In this novel, Thompson's 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. \u003cp\u003eThe theater's owner, Elizabeth, isn't 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 serve-in every way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey've 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of Jim Thompson will recognize the terse dialogue, plot twists and double-crosses, and a belief that nothing in the world in good, all of which makes Stephen King say that Jim Thompson is \"My favorite crime novelist-often imitated but never duplicated.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Devault-Graves Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021208699120,"sku":"9780989671491","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780989671491_p0.jpg?v=1763888419","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780989671491","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}