num_pages: 160
description: The Manton looks like a respectable hotel. Dusty Rhodes looks like a selfless young man working as a bellhop. And the woman in 1004 looks like an angel. But sometimes looks can kill, as Jim Thompson demonstrates in this vision of the crime novel as gothic.
language: English
title: A Swell-Looking Babe
titlecomplete: A Swell-Looking Babe
genres: American, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Suspense, Novels, Detective, 20th Century, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 1930
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard