The Great Hotel Murder

The Great Hotel Murder
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Publisher : Penzler Publishers
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781613161890
ISBN-13 : 1613161891
Rating : 4/5 (891 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Great Hotel Murder by : Vincent Starrett

Download or read book The Great Hotel Murder written by Vincent Starrett and published by Penzler Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This twisty whodunit from Starrett, best known for his writings about Sherlock Holmes, stars an eccentric amateur sleuth.” —Publishers Weekly 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. “An ingenious plot with enough complications to keep the reader guessing . . . The Great Hotel Murder makes good reading.” —The New York Times


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