For other uses of Palace, see Palace (disambiguation).
The Roarke Palace Hotel – Also called The Palace or The Palace Hotel[1] or the Roarke Palace.[2]
This hotel was very elegant and offered many services, suites, rooms, private meeting rooms, and at least two ballrooms[3] - the East Ballroom[4] and the Grand Ballroom.[5] The Royal Bar was a key attraction.[6]
Suites[]
The windows were privacy-screened[7] and the room were soundproofed.[1] They were sumptuous, and chock-full of fancy furniture, including a full bar setup. The bedroom was to the left from the door.[8]
Suite 4602, where Darlene French was murdered, was in the south tower, forty-sixth floor.[9]
Executive Suite, Luxury Level: The room was large, airy, and separated into sitting room and bedrooms by a fancy latticed screen that bloomed with flowering vines. A corner of the sitting room was efficiently arranged into a mini-office area with a communication and data system built into a trim console so executives could work in style.
Triplexes[]
The sixtieth floor had four triplexes, one on each corner; the triplexes catered to those who can afford the freight, and were billed as penthouses, or apartments. Every suite had its own private elevator which required a key card or clearance for use. Carl Jackson and Domingo Fellini were also staying at the hotel on the night Ava Marsterson was murdered.[10]
Penthouse[]
Penthouse A was described as plush and lush and perfect. The living area was enormous and elegantly furnished with walls of silky rose. The ceiling was arched and decorated with a complicated design of fruit and flowers around a huge glass and gold chandelier. Three sofas, all in deep, cushy red were piled with pillows bright as jewels. Tables were polished like mirrors, as was the floor. The rug was an inch thick and matched the ceiling pattern grape for grape.[11]
One wall was glass, the privacy drawn so that New York exploded with light and shape outside but couldn’t intrude. There was a stone terrace beyond, and as the flowers decked in the big stone pots were thriving, Eve assumed it was heated. A glossy white piano stood at one end of the room, and at the other, carved wood panels hid what she assumed was a full entertainment unit. There were plants of thick and glossy foliage, glass displays holding pretty dust catchers she concluded were art.[12]
The penthouse also contained a kitchen, office, two baths, bedroom, and dressing room.[13] The bed was big, elaborate, with a high, padded wall behind and covered with sheer, smoky gray. It looked like a bank of soft fog.[14] It ran about eighty-five hundred a night.[15]
Penthouse B was described as the same size as Penthouse A, but the furnishings were softer and more feminine; the colors were a symphony of blues and creams.[16]
Other Features[]
The VIP check-in was an elaborate parlor reserved for guests in the tonier suites and the triplexes.[10]
The Royal Bar was posh and fragrant. On some nights, live classical music might be provided and couples might dance on the dance floor.[6] Charles Monroe and Louise Dimatto had their first date at the Palace’s Royal Bar.[2]
The sixth floor had the health club, the pool, etc., and had no guest rooms.
Service[]
When the evening routine was finished in each room or suite, the housekeeper pressed Code Five on her beeper. It helped keep track of the staff and the units completed; while it went toward efficiency, it was also a security measure to protect the guests and the staff.[17]
Palace policy was to serve the guests, even if they just want to chat for a moment because they were away from home and lonely. This threw off the pace, but they were a service-first facility.[18]
Roarke Palace Employees[]
- Ariel - Roarke’s executive assistant in Seduction in Death[19]
- John Brigham - Security chief in Betrayal in Death[20]
- Paul Chambers - Security in Ritual in Death[21]
- Barry Collins - Bellboy in Betrayal in Death[22]
- Chef DeLay - Head Chef in Born in Death[23]
- Rochelle DeLay - Catering in Born in Death[23]
- Darlene French - Maid (killed in Betrayal in Death)
- Natalie Hilo - Head of housekeeping in Betrayal in Death[24]
- Jamal Jabar had been employed as waitstaff at The Royal Bar for last three years.[25]
- Lloyd Kowalski - Security in Ritual in Death[26]
- Mika Nakamura - Head of security in Ritual in Death[27]
- Brian Trosky - Desk clerk (died in Ritual in Death)[28]
- Sheila Walker - Maid/Housekeeper in Betrayal in Death[29]
Other Mentions[]
- According to George Hammett in Glory in Death, he and Cicely Towers would sometimes take a suite at the Palace for a night, when they were feeling adventurous.[30]
- Later in Glory in Death, Feeney said he caught Eve and Roarke at some fancy do at the Palace and she looked real sharp in a dress.[30]
- In Vengeance in Death, Jennie O’Leary checked into the Palace the night before she was murdered, into a suite prepaid by Roarke Industries, but only stayed there two hours before leaving for The West Side, where she was murdered.[31]
- In Loyalty in Death, Roarke reminded Eve that they had a dinner at eight at the Palace with some top-level staff and their spouses from one of his transportation arms, but he shifted it to 8:30 so they could attend J. Clarence Branson’s will reading at B.D. Branson’s house.[32]
- In Witness in Death, Richard Draco kept the penthouse at The Palace when in the city, for the panache, the convenience, and the utter lack of commitment.[33] In addition, Areena Mansfield had a penthouse suite at The Palace Hotel[34], and as Anja Carvell, she had a suite there.[35]
- In Betrayal in Death, Darlene French worked as a housekeeper and was killed there, by Sylvester Yost, as part of his distract Roarke campaign[36], and Charles Monroe offered to meet Peabody here, at the Royal Bar, to talk about Martin K. Roles, which was the name Yost was using when he ran into one of Charles’s clients while they were at the opera.[37], The charity auction to benefit the Magda Lane Foundation was held at the elegant Palace Hotel[38], where Magda Lane stayed.[39]
- In Seduction in Death, Charles and Louise Dimatto had their first date, at the posh and fragrant Royal Bar[40], where Louise ran into Monique Rue in the ladies’ lounge before she was drugged, but not killed.
- In Reunion in Death, Roarke said the Grand Regency Hotel, where Julianna Dunne tried to kill Roarke and Eve, although also owned by Roarke[41], wasn’t an urban castle like the Roarke Palace Hotel. It was bigger, sleeker, and geared more for the upper-end business clientele than the fashionable rich.[42]
- In Survivor in Death, Nixie Swisher told Eve that Mr. and Mrs. Dyson stayed at The Palace for their anniversary because it was the best, according to him.[43]
- Rochelle DeLay worked in Catering at the Palace in Born in Death, where her father was the hot-shot head chef.[23] In addition, Karl and Elise Helbringer stayed there while they were in New York.[4]
- Edmond and Linny Luce stayed there in Strangers in Death while they were in New York.[44]
- Most of Ritual in Death took place at the Palace Hotel.
- In Missing in Death, Roarke moved Carolee Grogan and her family there for better security and to have more room.[45]
- Ava Crampton met a client, Catrina Bigelo, there for two hours in Indulgence in Death; Eve thought, “Why not fuck in the best?”[46]
- Lemont Frester, an early suspect in Concealed in Death was speaking at the Roarke Palace Hotel.[47]
- The Mira Institute rented a suite at the Palace Hotel, which was revealed in Brotherhood in Death Edward and Mandy Mira tied the knot there, in a big, splashy deal before Roarke owned it.[48] Edward also brought women there, to the Institute’s suite[49], including Carlee MacKensie.[50]
- Dr. and Mrs. Strazza had a huge, splashy event here, coordinated by Darcy Valentine of Valentine Event Coordinators and attended by Lilia Dominick.[51]
- Eve set Daphne and her family up with a room there after Daphne was released from the hospital in Echoes in Death.[52]
- Blaine DeLano’s editor was meeting with one of his other writers for drinks at the Palace Hotel bar the night Chanel Rylan was murdered in Dark in Death[53]
- The annual Spring Gala, sponsored by Our Planet to benefit various environmental causes, was held in the grand ballroom. In Vendetta in Death, Linus Brinkman and LaDale Gerald were scheduled to attend, but Brinkman was abducted before it started.[5]
Oddity[]
Roarke had a master code to get into his various properties that has been used throughout the series. It may be odd that he did not have a master code to get into Suite 606 of the Roarke Palace Hotel and had to break in with his burglary tools in Ritual in Death. Later, he pulled out his master to open 606 when he arrived with Isis.[54]
References:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Seduction in Death (ISBN 0-425-18146-4), p. 151
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 7
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Born in Death, Chapter 6
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Vendetta in Death, Chapter 18
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Seduction in Death (ISBN 0-425-18146-4), pp. 151, 153
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 1
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), pp. 15-16
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 15
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ritual in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), p. 14
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), pp. 80-81
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 81
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 83
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 84
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 86
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), pp. 88-89
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 25
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 26
- ↑ Seduction in Death, Chapter 12
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 15
- ↑ Ritual in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), p. 35
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), pp. 28, 31
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Born in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 30
- ↑ Seduction in Death (ISBN 0-425-18146-4), p. 184
- ↑ Brotherhood in Death, Chapter 15
- ↑ Ritual in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), pp. 35-36
- ↑ Ritual in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), pp. 42-43
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), pp. 47-48
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Glory in Death, Chapter 3
- ↑ Vengeance in Death, Chapter 9
- ↑ Loyalty in Death, Chapter 4
- ↑ Witness in Death, Chapter 6
- ↑ Witness in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ Witness in Death, Chapter 17
- ↑ Betrayal in Death, Prologue
- ↑ Betrayal in Death, Chapter 14
- ↑ Betrayal in Death, Chapter 16
- ↑ Betrayal in Death, Chapter 17
- ↑ Seduction in Death, Chapter 10
- ↑ Reunion in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), p. 308
- ↑ Reunion in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), p. 316
- ↑ Survivor in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ Strangers in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ Missing in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Indulgence in Death, Chapter 9
- ↑ Concealed in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Brotherhood in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ Brotherhood in Death, Chapter 4
- ↑ Brotherhood in Death, Chapter 6
- ↑ Echoes in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ Echoes in Death, Chapter 18
- ↑ Dark in Death, Chapter 9
- ↑ Ritual in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), p. 61