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    A Swell-Looking Babe

    Jim Thompson

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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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    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.

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