by Arnold Bennett · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264077929
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«Le Grand Hôtel Babylon» is the mystery novel by Arnold Bennett, published by 10 X 18 in paperback (312 pages, in French).
In the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel, magnates, aristocrats and conspirators coexist. When the daughter of a New York millionaire requests an unusual dinner and is refused, her father reacts by buying the entire establishment. The disappearance of several employees and a German prince uncovers a plot of murder, blackmail and kidnapping.
Work originally published as The Grand Babylon Hotel in 1902; French translation by Lise Capitan.
For readers of classic crime fiction and mysteries set in high society at the turn of the twentieth century.
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
