Remember to Kill Me: A Pierre Chambrun Mystery Novel

Pierre Chambrun Mystery #19

by Hugh Pentecost

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

Genres: Mystery

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Hugh Pentecost was a penname of mystery author Judson Philips. Born in Massachusetts, Philips came of age during the golden age of pulp magazines, and spent the 1930s writing suspense fiction and sports stories for a number of famous pulps. His first book was Hold 'Em Girls! The Intelligent Women's Guide to Men and Football (1936). In 1939, his crime story Cancelled in Red won the Red Badge prize, launching his career as a novelist. Philips went on to write nearly one hundred books over the next five decades.

His best-known characters were Pierre Chambrun, a sleuthing hotel manager who first appeared in The Cannibal Who Overate (1962), and the one-legged investigative reporter Peter Styles, introduced in Laughter Trap (1964). Although he spent his last years with failing vision and poor health, Philips continued writing daily. His final novel was the posthumously published Pattern for Terror (1989).

Reviews

[Anthony Carlson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Strong characters, interesting premise. Captivating but not mindblowing by any means. Very solid. Traditional. Kind of a sudden solution with not a ton of aftermath, which was a smidge anti-climactic but didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. Chambrun is the best personality by far! A fun read.

[Monica Willyard Moen · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent mystery with plenty of plot twists and memorable characters.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another good - but dated - mystery. Hard not to cringe at some of the stereotypes but the mystery itself was solid.