Walking Dead Man

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DIVAs X-rated stars descend on the Beaumont Hotel, someone takes a shot at its owner/divDIV Terrified of flying, Beaumont Hotel owner George Battle hasn’t seen America in seventeen years, instead spending his days on the Riviera, counting his money. But pressing business calls him back to the United States: a seven million dollar investment in the latest epic directed by Maxwell Zorn, king of highbrow celluloid smut. It’s the kind of motion picture that even an old man will want to oversee personally./divDIV /divDIVAs Zorn’s outlandish entourage swarms the illustrious hotel, Battle takes residence in the penthouse suite of his infallible manager, Pierre Chambrun. On his first night there, a bullet splinters the headboard just inches from his face. Was the shot meant for him or Chambrun? The Beaumont’s top brass must tread lightly. Die, and the Beaumont dies with them—a blow from which the jet-set will never recover. /div

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Hugh Pentecost

1903 – 1989

Biography from http://mysteriouspress.com/authors/hugh-pentecost/default.asp: >**Hugh Pentecost** >**Aliases: Judson Philips** >Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips (1903-1989). Born in Massachusetts, Philips came of age as a writer during the golden age of pulp magazines, and spent the 1930s writing suspense fiction and sports stories for a number of famous pulps. His first book was *Hold ‘Em Girls! The Intelligent Women’s Guide to Men and Football* (1936), but it was winning the 1939 Red Badge prize for short fiction that started his career writing novels. Beginning with 1939’s *Cancelled in Red*, Philips would write nearly one hundred books over the next …