The man who checked into the glittering Hotel Beaumont called himself George Lovelace. But that was just one of his many names. For Lovelace was a legendary espionage agent who traded in secrets and dealt in death, and his list of aliases was as long as his toll of victims.

Now Lovelace had enough. He wanted to live out his days in peace. But someone on the elegant guest list of the Beaumont had a blood score to settle.

It was up to Pierre Chambrun, hotelkeeper and detective extraordinaire, to discover who among his sophisticated clientele had turned his establishment into a no-exit trap to keep a master spy from coming in from the cold alive...