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DIVThe night before an interview with a terrorist, a reporter is killed at the Beaumont Hotel /divDIV For a madman with an itch to kill someone famous, there could be no better venue than the Beaumont Hotel—Manhattan’s headquarters for the international elite. The omniscient manager Pierre Chambrun oversees the landmark, with the help of his press man, Mark Haskell. When the rich and famous arrive, Chambrun and Haskell can help them hide from the limelight or bask in it. But it’s difficult to keep a low profile when death comes to call./divDIV /divDIVGeoffrey Hammond is one of the world’s most respected—and loathed—television journalists. A fearless questioner of presidents and kings, he is in New York preparing an interview with an infamous Middle Eastern terrorist. But when the room service waiter comes to collect his breakfast tray in the morning, the journalist has been strangled. It will take all Chambrun’s powers to solve this mystery—especially since the future of the Middle East is at stake. /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 …