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Arthur Hailey
HOTEL
• Hotel is a 1965 novel by
Arthur Hailey. It is the
story of an independent
New Orleans hotel, the
St. Gregory, and its
management's struggle
to regain profitability
and avoid being
assimilated into the
O'Keefe chain of hotels.
The St. Gregory is
supposedly based on the
Roosevelt Hotel.
• "Fast-moving storytelling rich with
interesting and bizarre characters."
——THE DENVER POST
• "Instant readability... catches the
reader by his lapels and holds him
through its last crowded page.“
——CHICAGO TRIBUNE
• "A great story.“
——CLEVELAND PRESS
AS FOR
THE BLACKMAIL PART…
• most important point is the mental
activity. This article is mainly talking
about the psychological warfare between
Ogilvie and the Duchess. This fighting is
quite wonderful. They are trying to find
each other's real thinking, trying to
overwhelm each other with their own
momentum, after a long mental struggle,
finally the Duchess won. Psychological
warfare aspect is a very important point
in this article, it worth savoring.
• The Duke and Duchess arrived
back at the hotel and try to
find a way out, so that there is
left a slightest print of them
being involved in an accident.
• When the waiter arrived in the
presidential suite with dinner,
the Duchess intentionally hit
the waiter so that her dress
gets spoiled. The Duchess
created a big issue over this,
just to make her presence felt
in hotel so that it can be
interpreted that she was in
the hotel.
• But the chief house officer Ogilvie gets
hint of it and tries to blackmail the Duke
and Duchess. They finally reach an
agreement that Ogilvie would drive their
Jaguar to Chicago and a total of twenty
five thousand dollars would be paid to him.
The travel was supposedly on Thursday
night at 1 am. Ogilvie gets a written note
from Duchess asking for permission to
drive her car out of garage in case the
garage officer asks for.
• The moment he was driving the car out of
hotel, Peter (the general manager )was
entering the hotel and they had eye
contact, though Peter did not think much
of it. However, recollecting all the events
- a Jaguar being driven by Ogilvie which
belonged to Duke and Duchess - the
broken headlight of the Jaguar - the fuss
created by Duchess on waiter - all
established a link towards the
involvement of the Duke and Duchess.
• Peter inquired from the garage
officer and was informed that
Ogilvie had a written note from
the Duchess and so was allowed
to drive the car away, but
somehow the note got misplaced.
• Peter informed the police
captain Yolles of the incident,
but they could not prove it
without any evidence. After
working hard, the incinerator
(废物的焚化炉) officer,
responsible for garbage
recycling, managed to find the
note.
• When the note was
produced before
the Duchess, she
frowned.
• The Duke then
decided to admit
his crime and
decided to leave
and stepped into
elevator no 4 of the
Hotel.
• Keycase Milne: A hotel thief operating in
the St. Gregory.
• When he saw the duke and duchess in
hotel, he thought, if he could get the key
of their room, it would be an excellent
breakthrough. He managed to get the key
from reception playing trickery, got a
duplicate（复制品） prepared and stole
from duchess room her fifteen thousand
dollars and jewelry. After obtaining so
much of amount he decided to leave the
hotel and boarded the elevator no 4.
• Climax: The meeting to take over
the hotel scheduled at 11.30 am
Friday was in place. The boss was
Albert Wells, the hotel guest, whom
Christine had taken care and
thought of as not a rich man, had
bought the hotel. (Christine is the
secretary to Warren Trent. Peter
and Christine has a liking for each
other. They share many things in
common and feel they could be
happy together. ) To the utmost
surprise of peter, Peter was
appointed the Executive vicePresident of St. Gregory
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• It was within the meeting itself that
Christine came running and told that
elevator no 4 met an accident and had a
free fall.
• The Duke was dead on the spot in the
elevator. The duchess still cold on hearing
that, had no expression.
The policeman, Captain Yolles, thought
now the blame of hit-n-run could be easily
moved on Duke as he was already dead and
Duchess could save herself.
Keycase managed to be safe and ran away
from the country with all that money.