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The Evil That Men Do
The Evil That Men Do
The Evil That Men Do
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The Evil That Men Do

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A gang of jet-setting slanderers cause havoc at the stately Beaumont Hotel
Under the stern eye of manager Pierre Chambrun, life at the Beaumont runs with the efficiency of a Swiss watch. So reliable is the service at New York’s finest hotel that guests could set their timepieces to the movements of its bellhops. But a wrench is about to be thrown into this perfect mechanism—a redhead named Doris Standing. Standing is queen of the jet set, that army of playboys and party girls who tour the world in search of a good time. Lately, she and her gang have found a vicious kind of fun, exposing the misdeeds—real or imagined—of the rich and powerful. When this cruel young woman checks in to the Beaumont, Chambrun and his press man, Mark Haskell, take note. Because where Standing touches down, good men will be destroyed. 
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Release dateSep 25, 2012
ISBN9781453268841
The Evil That Men Do
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Hugh Pentecost

Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips (1903–1989). Born in Massachusetts, Philips came of age 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). In 1939, his crime story Cancelled in Red won the Red Badge prize, launching his career as a novelist. Philips went on to write nearly one hundred books over the next five decades. His best-known characters were Pierre Chambrun, a sleuthing hotel manager who first appeared in The Cannibal Who Overate (1962), and the one-legged investigative reporter Peter Styles, introduced in Laughter Trap (1964). Although he spent his last years with failing vision and poor health, Philips continued writing daily. His final novel was the posthumously published Pattern for Terror (1989). 

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    This series is set in the 1960s New York City, in an elite hotel. Pierre Chambrun is a man who holds his cards close to his chest, but the stories are told through his assistant's eyes, much like Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe, only without the very funny dialog. I enjoy it particularly since it takes place in a hotel, and I used to manage one. I find the details true to life from that aspect (at least the difficulties with the guests, and the efforts to maintain a calm façade for them).A notorious Naughty Rich Kids gang has checked into the hotel. Problem is, someone seems to be murdering them. While this is not a great loss to society, Chambrun will not allow his hotel to be used as a stage for revenge. This book, written in the 1960s, had a very good discussion of what it is like to be a successful "Negro" amongst the white race, even when they are friendly to you. A black man who has an excellent reputation as a lawyer is accused of rape by one of the women in the gang. While Chambrun doesn't believe it, he knows what a danger it is to the man.

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