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Secrets of a Luxury Hotel Detective
Surprising Number of Eccentrics
Among the wealthy there are a surprising percentage of eccentrics, perhaps because they have the means to indulge in all their whims. Hotels, as a rule, do not serve such people, but if such guests have money and high connections, it is not always policy to refuse them accommodation. We detectives bear the brunt of their presence. The line between eccentricity and insanity in many cases is a slender one, and for that reason careful watch has to be kept on eccentric residents.
The Queenslander, 1938
Bletchley Park was, to put it politely, architecturally interesting. It seemed to Rowland that the mansion had repeatedly fallen victim to fashionable renovation at all costs. Either that or the original architect was ma
