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.
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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 ...
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(1906 - 1977) James Meyers Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films “The Killing” and “Paths of Glory”). An outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society in particular, Thompson’s work at its best is both philosophical and experimental. Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963).
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Von S. Clark
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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.
Von A. Ross
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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. Not too hard to see where it's headed, and not really worth making the trip.
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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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