Arnold Bennett: The Grand Babylon Hotel

"The Grand Babylon Hotel" is an extravagant crime novel describing the life of high society. Thanks to this book, Bennett gained worldwide recognition.

The book tells the story of a self-confident darling of fortune, a millionaire from the United States of America, who buys one of the best London hotels, whose guests are members of the royal court and noble families of the Old World. What will the purchase turn out to be for him - a nice fun or a flurry of unpredictable, sometimes tragic, events? But the former owner of the Grand Babylon Hotel warned him...