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| | Behind Closed Doors | Travel + Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In fact, he's the antithesis of glamour: a hard-bitten ex-cop, perhaps, installed in a flophouse lobby behind a racing form and a stogie. |
 | | Unlike the private eye, he's not a romantic figure; he's paid by the hour and probably on the take. |
 | | The pseudonymous Collans was a real retired house dick, the sort who, we learn, "makes collars" and is alert to "loungers, loafers, and larrikins...the 'lobby lice.' " The pseudonymous Sterling (actually Prentice Winchell)was the author of a series of mysteries involving a hotel detective at the swank "Plaza Royale" in New York. |
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