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PublisherPenzler Publishers

ISBN-101613161883

ISBN-139781613161883

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038441025

Product Key Features

Book TitleGreat Hotel Murder

Number of PagesVIII, 210 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicMystery & Detective / Cozy, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

GenreFiction

AuthorVincent Starrett

Book SeriesAn American Mystery Classic Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight9 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-912208

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsAn ingenious plot with enough complications to keep the reader guessing . . . The Great Hotel Murder makes good reading.

Series Volume Number0

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisWhen a New York banker is discovered dead from an apparent morphine overdose in a Chicago hotel, the circumstances surrounding his untimely end are suspicious to say the least. The dead man had switched rooms the night before with a stranger he met and drank with in the hotel bar. And before that, he'd registered under a fake name at the hotel, told his drinking companion a fake story about his visit to the Windy City, and seemingly made no effort to contact the actress, performing in a local show, to whom he was married. All of which is more than enough to raise eyebrows among those who discovered the body. Enter theatre critic and amateur sleuth Riley Blackwood, a friend of the hotel's owner, who endeavors to untangle this puzzling tale as discreetly as possible. But when another detective working the case, whose patron is unknown, is thrown from a yacht deck during a party by an equally unknown assailant, the investigation makes a splash among Chicago society. And then several of the possible suspects skip town, leaving Blackwood struggling to determine their guilt or innocence--and their whereabouts. Reissued for the first time in over eighty years, The Great Hotel Murder is a devilishly complex whodunnit with a classical aristocratic setting, sure to please Golden Age mystery fans of all stripes. In 1935, the story was adapted for a film of the same name., When a New York banker is discovered dead from an apparent morphine overdose in a Chicago hotel, the circumstances surrounding his untimely end are suspicious to say the least. The dead man had switched rooms the night before with a stranger he met and drank with in the hotel bar. And before that, he'd registered under a fake name at the hotel, told his drinking companion a fake story about his visit to the Windy City, and seemingly made no effort to contact the actress, performing in a local show, to whom he was married. All of which is more than enough to raise eyebrows among those who discovered the body. Enter theatre critic and amateur sleuth Riley Blackwood, a friend of the hotel's owner, who endeavors to untangle this puzzling tale as discreetly as possible. But when another detective working the case, whose patron is unknown, is thrown from a yacht deck during a party by an equally unknown assailant, the investigation makes a splash among Chicago society. And then several of the possible suspects skip town, leaving Blackwood struggling to determine their guilt or innocence-and their whereabouts. Reissued for the first time in over eighty years, The Great Hotel Murder is a devilishly complex whodunnit with a classical aristocratic setting, sure to please Golden Age mystery fans of all stripes. In 1935, the story was adapted for a film of the same name.

LC Classification NumberPS3537.T246