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Hugh Pentecost
Full Series List in Order
A Julian Quist Mystery Novel
1 - Deadly Trap (1978)2 - Murder Out of Wedlock (Dec-1983)
3 - Party Killer (1985)
4 - Kill & Kill Again (Apr-1987)
A Pierre Chambrun Mystery
1 - The Cannibal Who Overate (1962)2 - The Shape of Fear (1964)
3 - The Evil That Men Do (1966)
4 - The Golden Trap (1967)
5 - The Gilded Nightmare (1969)
6 - Girl Watcher's Funeral (1969)
7 - The Deadly Joke (1971)
8 - Birthday, Deathday (1972)
9 - Walking Dead Man (1973)
10 - Bargain With Death (1974)
11 - Time of Terror (1975)
12 - The 14 Dilemma (1976)
13 - Death After Breakfast (1978)
14 - Random Killer (1979)
15 - Beware Young Lovers (1980)
16 - Murder in Luxury (1981)
17 - With Intent to Kill (1982)
18 - Murder in High Places (May-1983)
19 - Remember to Kill Me (Apr-1984)
20 - Nightmare Time (Jun-1986)
21 - Murder Goes Round and Round (Aug-1988)
An Uncle George Mystery Novel
The Copycat Killers (Aug-1983)Death by Fire (Dec-1986)
Book List in Order: 44 titles
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The Cannibal Who Overate
- 1962
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The unspeakable (and unspeakably rich) Aubrey Moon, sadist extraordinaire, had been threatened--and his murder was to take place at the incomparable Hotel Beaumont. Pierre Chambrun, the inimitable manager of the Beaumont, had nothing against the demi...
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The Shape of Fear
- 1964
- / Amateur Sleuth
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At New York's stateliest hotel, the manager has a revolution on his hands When the leading lights of international society come to New York, no place will do but the Beaumont Hotel. And inside the famous halls of this Manhattan landmark, manager P...
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The Evil That Men Do
- 1966
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A gang of jet-setting slanderers cause havoc at the stately Beaumont Hotel Under the stern eye of manager Pierre Chambrun, life at the Beaumont runs with the efficiency of a Swiss watch. So reliable is the service at New York’s finest hotel that...
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The Golden Trap
- 1967
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A spy marked for death finds a corpse in his hotel room George Lovelace has spent more than two decades in the shadows. Shielded by an array of forged passports, he has battled Nazis, Communists, and anyone else who might harm the United States. H...
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The Gilded Nightmare
- 1969
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A Nazi's widow comes to the Beaumont Hotel with death in her entourage As befits the manager of New York's finest hotel, Pierre Chambrun has certain standards for his guests at the Beaumont. Were it not for the pleading of the hotel's owner, no am...
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Girl Watcher's Funeral
- 1969
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It's fashion week at the Beaumont, and Chambrun must investigate a haute couture killing Barrel-chested and twinkle-eyed, Nikos Karados is one of the jet-set's most charming figures. A Greek shipping magnate with a philanthropic bent, Karados has ...
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The Deadly Joke
- 1971
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A prank outside the Beaumont Hotel goes haywire, and an assassin kills the wrong man Political fundraisers can be cynical and coarse when they're among their own kind, and Pierre Chambrun, manager of the elegant Beaumont Hotel, prefers not to let...
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Birthday, Deathday
- 1972
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Against its manager's wishes, the Beaumont Hotel shelters a killer When the Chinese Revolution exploded, General Chang was one of the most vicious military leaders, committing atrocities so savage that even his comrades in the Red Army feared him....
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Walking Dead Man
- 1973
- / Amateur Sleuth
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As X-rated stars descend on the Beaumont Hotel, someone takes a shot at its owner Terrified of flying, Beaumont Hotel owner George Battle hasn't seen America in seventeen years, instead spending his days on the Riviera, counting his money. But pre...
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Bargain With Death
- 1974
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J. W. Sassoon, head man of the biggest oil conglomerate in the world, was found dead in his rooms in the plush Hotel Beaumont. Murder, the police said, and Pierre Chambrun, the imperturbable hotel manager, has only hours to find the answers to some l...
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Time of Terror
- 1975
- / Amateur Sleuth
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TRICK OR TREAT The elegant calm of New York's top luxury hotel is shattered when the mysterious Colonel Coriander arrives. Wearing fright wig and mask, the one-armed terrormonger has planted bombs throughout the building and is holding two small girl...
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The 14 Dilemma
- 1976
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Red Carpet - George, Helen and twelve-year-old Marilyn - the Watson family - are the super all-American, superlucky winners of the Carlton's Creek lottery. The grand prize: $250,000 and one luxurious week at New York's legendary Hotel Beaumont. But ...
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The Day the Children Vanished
- Sep-1976
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From the creative mind of Hugh Pentecost comes a terrifying and prophetic novel that potentially influenced the Chowchilla kidnapping in 1976. The Day the Children Vanished is not for the faint of heart, as readers are taken down the rabbit hole of t...
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Deadly Trap
- 1978
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Julian Quist doesn't return from a walk in the woods. He has walked into a hideout where terrorists are holding hostage the daughter of an Arab oil tycoon. Knowing Quist's absence will produce an intensive search, the terrorists move him and the gi...
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Death After Breakfast
- 1978
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When its manager vanishes, the Beaumont Hotel spins towards disasterFor decades, Pierre Chambrun has maintained the enormous mechanism that is the Beaumont Hotel. He breakfasts in his office at nine, and spends his days and nights ensuring that the v...
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Random Killer
- 1979
- / Amateur Sleuth
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The night before an interview with a terrorist, a reporter is killed at the Beaumont Hotel For a madman with an itch to kill someone famous, there could be no better venue than the Beaumont HotelManhattan's headquarters for the international elit...
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Beware Young Lovers
- 1980
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Sharon Brand has been at the top of the Hollywood glamour ladder for almost thirty years. Her romances with some of filmdom's most famous male stars has added spice to the Brand story. But after she establishes a relationship with a man young enough ...
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Murder in Luxury
- 1981
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Rich, beautiful, lonely and in trouble, Valerie Summers arrived at New York's luxurious Hotel Beaumont dragging a trail of murder that baffled even the Beaumont's legendary manager, Pierre Chambrun. First her mother, then a man she had a crush on, ...
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With Intent to Kill
- 1982
- / Amateur Sleuth
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MURDER CHECKS IN... Murder is an unwelcome spotlight on Pierre Chambrun's beloved hotel. All the more unwelcome when the body found is that of a mutilated fifteen-year-old boy--and when the mystery further involves a pop idol, a brutally beaten ce...
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Murder in High Places
- May-1983
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BOOKED FOR DEATH Larry Welch, a well-known journalist, is sitting on a story so big, it could lead to international disaster--or even war. He seeks sanctuary in New York's luxurious Hotel Beaumont to decide his story's fate, throwing legendary man...
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Remember to Kill Me
- Apr-1984
- / Amateur Sleuth
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New York's top luxury hotel, the Beaumont, is invaded by hoodlums and the guests held captive, while Pierre Chambrun, the hotel's manager, tries to find a solution to the crisis....
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Party Killer
- 1985
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Comedian Larry Lewis has invited celebrity guests to the opening of his New England resort. After they have all gone to bed, a violent explosion rocks the inn. Two people are killed, but they are not in a place where they belong. Did the killer make ...
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Nightmare Time
- Jun-1986
- / Amateur Sleuth
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THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL The disappearance of Major Hamilton Willis and his wife from New York's Beaumont Hotel strikes a personal chord with manager Pierre Chambrun. The major once saved his life. Now it looks as if Hamilton's eleven-year-old son...
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Murder Goes Round and Round
- Aug-1988
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Toby March, the famous masked impersonator, begins an engagement in New York's plush Hotel Beaumont. The next day the housekeeper finds Toby's room a wreck, bedclothes smeared with blood, but no sign of Toby, dead or alive. And Frank Pasqua, his busi...
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Pattern for Terror
- Jan-1990
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Former county prosecutor and town sage Uncle George Crowder finds himself on the crime trail again when his nephew discovers a schoolteacher, who has died of an apparent accident while smuggling drugs, and is kidnapped...
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Murder As Usual
- Aug-1997
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A psychotic girl had shot and killed Mac Crenshaw. Seconds after, she had been bludgeoned to death by the victim's frantic brother. Crenshaw, the brilliant son of an oil tycoon, had come to the New England town with the advance party for Senator Farr...
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Cancelled in Red
- Jan-2016
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Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at gunpoint.Soon afterward, a dishy dame convinces Larry Storm, Adrian’s rival, to play amateur detective for...
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The 24th Horse
- Mar-2016
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Just as Cancelled in Red took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd.
The 24th Horse gallops after a...
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I'll Sing at Your Funeral
- Apr-2016
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When ex-riveter Pat Cain accepted Emily Stoddard’s offer to finance his singing career, he found himself hob-nobbing with a clique of voice teachers, theatrical coaches, a numerologist and an Indian Chief. It never occurred to him that violence and...
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The Brass Chills
Luke Bradley is no stranger to murder, but the stakes have never been higher -- the defense of American lives from Japanese forces. The action begins when screenwriter Chris Wells travels from the west coast to a naval repair base on a barren island....