[A Swell-Looking Babe]. Un Chouette Petit Lot.

JIM THOMPSON

Publication: Gallimard, 1968, Paris

First French edition of "A Swell-Looking Babe." PBO. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Bill "Dusty" Rhodes dropped out of college to take care of his adeptive father. He resents his father and misses his mother, who died a few years before. Terribly depressed, Dusty is now working as a bellhop at the Hotel Manton. When Marcia Hillis, a swell-looking babe, becomes a guest at the hotel, he knows she's the one chance he's got of filling the void. But then late one night Marcia calls him to her room. Why???

Inventory Number: 23870