House Dicks
While you’re checking in, they’ll be checking you out…
Tony Reseck by Raymond Chandler (The Windermere Hotel, Los Angeles)- Marty Bond by Ed Lacy (The Grover, New York City)
- Gil Vine by Stewart Sterling (Plaza Royale, New York City)
- Johnny Killain by Dan J. Marlowe (The Duarte Hotel, New York City)
- Joe Grundy by Marc Strange (The Lord Douglas, Vancouver)
- Am Caulfield by Alan Russell (Hotel California, La Jolla)
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- I Was a House Detective (1954, by Dav Collane & Stewart Sterling)Â | Buy this book
An intriguing non-fiction book, offering the scoop on “Lawbreakers and c-girls, walk-in men and walk-up ladies–a startling expose of big city hotels.” - “The Bygone Era Of The Hotel Detective”
Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
