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With Intent to Kill (The Pierre Chambrun Mysteries) Kindle Edition

by Hugh Pentecost (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
In the pool of the Beaumont Hotel, a teenager is found murdered and faceless
 Manhattan’s charitable circles know no finer place for a fundraiser than the stately Beaumont Hotel, whose brilliant manager Pierre Chambrun will do whatever it takes to make Good Samaritans feel at home. This means that after popular singer Stan Nelson has completed his annual twenty-four-hour telethon for cancer research, Chambrun is loath to wake the crooner from his well-earned sleep. But there has been a murder in the hotel’s pool, and that means no good deed will go unpunished. A young man is found floating in the water, his face a bloody mess, his pockets empty of everything but a telethon pledge card bearing Stan’s autograph. The star swears he doesn’t recognize the corpse, but as Chambrun and his team dig into the secrets behind the charity, they discover a tangled plot involving sin and religion, and the deadly consequences that can come from doing good.
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  1. Book 13 of 15
    The Pierre Chambrun Mysteries
  2. Print length
    268 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
  5. Publication date
    October 8, 2013
  6. File size
    3.8 MB
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“A certain hand, and a crafty mind. . . . Ingenious.” —The New Yorker “Hugh Pentecost’s best stories seem usually to be those about Pierre Chambrun, resident manager of that superb hotel de luxe, the Beaumont.” —The New York Times “The Hotel Beaumont is where I shall go if I die in a state of grace.” —Anthony Boucher

About the Author

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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FPX9E72
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road; Reprint edition (October 8, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 8, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Hugh Pentecost

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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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  • Random average person
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good tale
    Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2021
    First Pentecost book was really worthwhile. Debonair beginning flexuous story that I’m happy to have giving a chance and now look forward to my second Hugh Pentecost book.
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  • Kindle Customer Abby
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Pierre Chambrun Mystery...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2004
    Murder is an unwelcome spotlight on Pierre Chambrun's beloved hotel. All the more unwelcome when the body found is that of a mutilated 15 year old boy...and when the mystery further involves a pop idol, a brutally beaten centerfold, a soft-porn king, a religious zealot, an employee found dead in a laundry hamper and another with a concussion. It's a convoluted case for the dapper Chambrun, but time is running out as the murder readies to kill again.
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