title: A Swell-Looking Babe
text: # A Swell-Looking Babe
  
  A Swell-Looking Babe is an American crime novel by Jim Thompson.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Dusty, a bellboy looking to raise enough money for medical school, falls for the wrong woman.
  
  ## Film adaptation
  
  A Swell-Looking Babe was adapted into the 1996 film Hit Me starring Elias Koteas as the bellboy, who is renamed "Sonny" in the film adaptation.
  
  