The Great Hotel Robbery.

JOHN MINAHAN

Publication: WW Norton & Company, 1982, New York

First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Who robbed a fancy Park Avenue hotel of $4 million worth of safe-deposit-box valuables? That's the puzzle for NYPD cops Rawlings and Daniels in this zany farce-procedural. The top suspects include minor hood Jimmy Ferragamo; bored intellectual William McCabe, who's "wasting his life turning out a pissyass airline inflight magazine;" and Hamilton Harcourt, an agent of Lloyd's of London. The trail lead to an S&M transvestite nightclub and eventually, despite hindrances from paranoid Police Chief Vadney, to a televised arrest. An entertaining read.

Inventory Number: 12767