Rich, beautiful, lonely and in trouble, Valerie Summers arrived at New York's luxurious Hotel Beaumont dragging a trail of murder that baffled even the Beaumont's legendary manager, Pierre Chambrun. First, her mother, then a man she had crush on,...
After an Air Force major and his wife disappear from New York's elegant Beaumont Hotel, leaving their young son behind, Pierre Chambrun, the hotel's manager, sets out to solve crimes of treason and...
Toby March, the famous masked impersonator, begins an engagement in New York's plush Hotel Beaumont. The next day the housekeeper finds Toby's room a wreck, bedclothes smeared with blood, but no sign of Toby, dead or alive. And Frank Pasqua, his...
J. W. Sassoon, head man of the biggest oil conglomerate in the world, was found dead in his rooms in the plush Hotel Beaumont. Murder, the police said, and Pierre Chambrun, the imperturbable hotel manager, has only hours to find the answers to some...
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may...
Worldly, sophisticated hotel manager Pierre Chambrun faces a crisis of conscience when his beloved secretary is kidnapped by a group that wants Chambrun to betray a famous journalist, a guest at the hotel, who knows too...