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03265aam a2200505 i 4500 001 1BE99456ACCA11ECBC97898D42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220326010013 008 200702t20201935nyu e 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2020912208 020 $a 1613161883 020 $a 9781613161883 020 $a 1613161875 020 $a 9781613161876 035 $a (OCoLC)1141499279 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $e rda $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OPW $d GL4 $d TOH $d ILC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SINLB $d ANK $d OCL $d B@L $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PS3537.T246 $b G74 2020 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Starrett, Vincent, $d 1886-1974, $e author. 245 14 $a The great hotel murder / Vincent Starrett. / $c Vincent Starrett ; introduction by Lyndsay Faye. 264 1 $a New York : $b Penzler Publishers, $c 2020. 300 $a viii, 210 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 0 $a American Mystery Classics 500 $a Includes discussion questions. 500 $a Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. With note on OCLC entry: "Previously published in the Redbook magazine in one installment under the title of 'Recipe for murder'." 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Hotels $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Theater critics $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Theater critics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149336 650 7 $a Hotels $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00961767 650 7 $a Murder $x Investigation $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01029788 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204048 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726581 655 7 $a Fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Mystery fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Faye, Lyndsay, $e writer of introduction. 830 0 $a Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library. 941 $a 1 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20220326011729.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1BE99456ACCA11ECBC97898D42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search