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A Swell-Looking Babe (Do Not Use) (Crime Masterworks)
  
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A Swell-Looking Babe (Do Not Use) (Crime Masterworks) (Hardcover)

by Jim Thompson (Author)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Orion; n.e. edition (1 Jun 2003)
  • ISBN-10: 0752852116
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752852119
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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The Manson looked like a respectable hotel; Dusty Rhodes looked like a selfless young man working as a bellhop; and the woman on the tenth floor who arrived on the midnight train looked like a slumming angel. But appearances can be deceptive - deceptive enough to lead to robbery, treachery and murder . . . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Among his many novels are The Killer Inside Me, The Grifters, The Getaway and After Dark, My Sweet. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Pop. 1280 was an acclaimed French film under the title Coup de Torchon.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent crime novel, but perhaps not what you would expect, 10 July 1999
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This review is from: Swell Looking Babe (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Paperback)
A Swell Looking Babe ranks with Thompson's best, but it is much different than many of the novels for which he is famous. The narrator is a bellboy who hates his father. Unlike many other Thompson 1st-person barrages, he is not crazy, however. He can't hold a candle to Lou Ford, in other words. What makes this novel interesting, however, is the character of the hotel; it has a personality of its own.
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4.0 out of 5 stars One of Thompson's best, 14 July 2009
By B. Powell (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Swell-Looking Babe (Crime Masterworks) (Paperback)
This was a strange book. Gripping from the start, never a dull moment, and then a quiet and rather unsatisfactory ending.
If Thompson was a modern author, instead of 140 pages, the book would have had 400. Thompson's style is lean. The main characters get their personalities from the dialogue, and not from complicated thought. No padding. Great twists and turns. It's not surprising that Thompson is revered by the best crime authors of today. What is surprising is that the majority of his books are out-of-print!
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, totally gripping, 22 Aug 1999
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This review is from: Swell Looking Babe (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Paperback)
The best one of Thompson's I've read. More true to life than some of the others, since much of it is based on his own adolescent experience. A real killer ending, too. Packs a real punch.
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So-so effort from the ace of pulp noir. Typical themes of a twisted loner with thwarted ambition, blackmail and a dark secret -- and a dollop of incest. Read more
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