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...
This first collection of Pierre Chambrun stories features the small, dark French-born manager of New York's Beaumont Hotel in thirteen ingeniously solved cases, involving murderous entrepreneurs, TV personalities, and...
In the pool of the Beaumont Hotel, a teenager is found murdered and faceless
Manhattan's charitable circles know no finer place for a fundraiser than the stately Beaumont Hotel, whose brilliant manager Pierre Chambrun will do whatever it takes to...
Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. «Playback» finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure...