THE PRINCE OF PARADISE: THE TRUE STORY OF A HOTEL HEIR, HIS SEDUCTIVE WIFE, AND A RUTHLESS MURDER
Book ID/图书代码： 06814013B61187
English Summary/英文概要： Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau hotel, he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the world’s biggest stars, including Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, Elvis Presley, and Ann-Margret, who performed regularly at the Fontainebleau’s La Ronde Room. He sat by while his parents entertained presidents and movie stars, as they reigned over Miami Beach in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, and when the family business went sour he became wealthy in his own right, founding a multi-million dollar business using connections he made at the Fontainebleau.
But Ben, Jr.’s luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would end in another hotel room—a thousand miles away from the one where he grew up—when police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death.
Seven years earlier, police found Novack in an eerily similar situation—when his wife Narcy duct-taped him to a chair for twenty-four hours and robbed him. Claiming it was a sex game, he never pressed charges and never followed through with a divorce. Now prosecutors claimed Narcy let the vicious killers into the room and watched as they beat her husband with dumbbells. They also suspected she was involved in the horrendous death of Novack’s mother, just three months before. But it would be Narcy’s own daughter who implicated her to the police—in this twisted case of passion, perversion, and paradise lost.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Ben Novack, Jr. 自小过着奢华阔绰的生活，他是传说中枫丹白露酒店的继承人。从小时候开始，他身边就被各种大人物包围，其中有猫王，弗兰克•西纳特拉，鼠帮乐队，安玛格丽特等，他们定期都会在枫丹白露酒店表演。在上世纪50,60年代，Ben的父母在迈阿密海滩有绝对的权利，所以总统和电影明星会接待他们，这时候Ben就坐在父母身边，当家族企业不济时，他开始自己的事业，也做得有声有色，成为了亿万富翁。
但是这个传奇的人物竟然客死异乡，当警察发现他时，他被胶带绑住手脚，殴打致死。
警察在调查中发现，7年前，Novack竟然有怪异的相同经历，他的妻子Narcy把Novack用胶带绑在椅子上长达24小时。Novack并没有因此起诉妻子或提出离婚，只声称这只是个性虐游戏而已。现在公诉人提出这样的可能性，Narcy把凶残的歹徒放进屋子，然后看着他们用哑铃把丈夫打死，他们还怀疑3个月前Novack母亲的死也与Narcy有关。但是竟然是Narcy的女儿向警方报的案，如今对她来说，家庭已经支离破碎，原本的天堂已失落不见。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“小说开头就非常引人入胜，（“2009年7月，当退休的警察局局长James Scarberry 听说Ben Novack Jr.被残忍地杀害时，他竟然一点也不感到惊奇。”）这件真实的杀人案件非常吸引读者的眼球。作者对细节的刻画非常入微，故事讲述了Novack悲惨的医生，从他的父亲建立起枫丹白露饭店开始，到他不快乐的童年生活，最后于2009年去世，享年53岁。真实的故事也可以比小说更令人毛骨悚然。”——《出版者周刊》
“当今最杰出的的犯罪纪实小说之一。”——Harold Goldberg, VH1.com
About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰•格拉特是一位有30年以上经验的调查记者，。在过去14年中，他已经写了19本真实犯罪书籍和4本传记。目前在世界各地已出版1万册有余，Glatt被公认为最好的真实犯罪小说作家之一。
Glatt在英国伦敦出生长大，16岁离开学校，在伦敦外一个小周报工作，在那里他磨练了他的敏锐的新闻触角，后来还做了其他不同的工作 - 包括茶童和邮递员 - 。在接下来的几年中，他为许多国家的英文报纸，包括“每日快报“星期日人民报”，“每日邮报”，"妇女杂志"等做自由撰稿人。
1981年，他搬到纽约，为新闻有限公司工作，还为“新闻周刊”，“全方位”，“纽约邮报”，“澳大利亚”，“现代商务”等全球报刊杂志做自由撰稿人。
John Glatt is an investigative journalist with more than thirty years experience. In the last fourteen years he has written 19 true crime books and 4 biographies. With more than a million books currently in print all over the world, Glatt is acknowledged to be one of the best true crime writers working today.
A native of London, England, Glatt left school at sixteen and worked in a variety of jobs - including tea boy and messenger - before joining a small weekly newspaper outside London, where he honed his keen news sense. Over the next few years he freelanced for many national English newspapers, including The Daily Express, The Sunday People, The Daily Mail and Woman Magazine.
In 1981 he moved to New York, working on staff for News Limited, as well as freelancing for Newsweek, Omni, the New York Post, the Australian, Modern Business and other newspapers and magazines worldwide.
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