Luxury Club – Located in midtown Manhattan, the fifth floor of the Luxury Club held twenty private suites for the members’ use. Meetings of a professional or private nature could be held there. Each suite was individually decorated to depict its own era, and each contained a complete communication and entertainment center.[1] Parties could be held there, of the large or the intimate nature. The catering department was unsurpassed in a city often preoccupied with food and drink. Licensed companions were available through the concierge for a small additional service charge.[2]
Louis Trivane always booked Suite 5-C. He enjoyed the opulence of the eighteenth-century French style with its emphasis on the decorative. The rich fabrics of the upholstery on curved-back chairs and velvet settees appealed to his love of texture. He enjoyed the thick, dark draperies, the gold tassels, the gleam of gilt on pier glass mirrors; it had a wide, high, canopy bed.[3]
The mirrors were ornately framed and, in the bathroom, was a curved gold faucet and shiny tiles.[4] Louis Trivane was murdered by Mirium Hopkins in this bathroom in Ceremony in Death.[5]
References:
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), pp. 264-265
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), p. 265
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), p. 265
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), pp. 266, 268
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), pp. 268, 270