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A Swell-Looking Babe (Crime Masterworks)

A Swell-Looking Babe (Crime Masterworks)

by JimThompson (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $26.10
Synopsis

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 ...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 20 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 0752852124
ISBN 13: 9780752852126
Book Overview: 'My favourite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated - is Jim Thompson' Stephen King 'A master of the noir crime novel. His vision of small town America ... is uniquely compelling' Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction 'If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it' Washington Post 'Jim Thompson had more pistolero savvy than all the so-called great American Writers ... Thompson was a hammer to their feather dusters' Harlan Ellison 'The master of the anti-hero, tough-guy genre' Publishers Weekly 'Jim Thompson was the king ... Thompson's vision makes him like nobody else ... [His] novels don't have good guys, just antiheroes and the women who deserve them' Roderick Thorp

Author Bio
Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. As well as his much-praised novels, he 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.