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Death en Voyage - Richard Grayson
1986 UK hardback first edition, 1st impression, Gollancz, London A fine book in near fine unclipped dustwrapper No names, inscriptions or stamps Tightly bound and square, clean covers and text block The jacket has no loss or tears An Inspector Gautier mystery, involves a juicy sexual scandal in the nineteenth century which is later connected with the murder of an English woman A nice clean copy For Sale at £10 (approx $17) *PB1 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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THE CONCIERGE IN his red frock coat and black trousers greeted Gautier with the same dignified courtesy that he would show to the Russian grand dukes, English milords and Spanish grandees who often patronized the Hotel Cheltenham. He was resolutely, almost ostentatiously, unperturbed. In the faces and the manner of the other members of the hotel staff—the pages, the lift boy and the chambermaids—one could see the suppressed excitement, the fearful fascination which a sudden and unexpected appearance of death always provokes. The concierge, on the other hand, knew it was his responsibility to set an example and to show that the order and discipline of his hotel could not be disrupted, even by such a deplorable incident as a murder. 'I will take you up myself, Inspector,' he said and Gautier recognized that a compliment.was intended. As they walked up the main staircase to the second floor, he was glad that they had not taken the elevator which moved ponderously up and down the centre of the hotel in its iron cage, for the concierge would not wish to discuss the murder in front of any guests who might be riding in the elevator nor even in front of the lift boy. All Gautier knew were the facts which had been reported to the Surete. An Englishwoman had been found murdered in her suite at the Hotel Cheltenham in Rue du Faubourg St. Honore. |
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