The Grand Babylon Hotel
About this ebook
Luxury, laughter, and lethal secrets fill the corridors when an American millionaire buys London's grandest hotel. He bought a hotel for dinner... and uncovered a conspiracy the staff would kill to keep quiet.
Decades before the cozy mystery had a name, Arnold Bennett set murder, monarchy, and razor-sharp wit loose inside London's grandest hotel in this 1902 classic.
Arnold Bennett's classic murder mystery in a new edition with a special foreword from Coronation Street actress Deborah McAndrew.
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About the author
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist and well-known playwright of his time. In his early career he worked as a clerk, and later moved to London where he received early success with the novel, A Man from the North (1898). Bennett established himself as a new voice of English fiction and soon found himself in a feud with another well-known English author Virginia Woolf, over the value of realism versus interior consciousness.
Soon after his success with his debut novel, Bennett achieved popular acclaim with The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902), a murder mystery set in a luxury hotel, said to be modeled after London's famous Savoy Hotel.
Bennett wrote over thirty novels, thirteen plays, and numerous short stories. The Old Wives' Tale (1908) is considered his masterpiece. In 1931, Bennett died in Paris from typhoid fever after drinking contaminated water.
