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Hotel is a novel by Arthur Hailey . It is the story of an independent New Orleans hotel, the St. Gregory, to regain profitability and avoid being assimilated into the O'Keefe chain of hotels. The St. Gregory is supposedly based on the Fairmont New Orleans .


CHARACTERS

  • Peter McDermott, manager

  • Warren Trent, proprietor

  • Christine Francis, secretary to Warren Trent

  • Curtis O'Keefe, owner of the O'Keefe chain

  • Dorothy "Dodo" Lash, O'Keefe's starlet companion

  • Albert Wells, aging hotel guest

  • The Duke and Duchess of Croydon, guests in the Presidential Suite

  • Ogilvie, house detective

  • Julius "Keycase" Milne, hotel thief


The novel was adapted into a Movie in 1967 , and later into a Television Series .