The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder - Hardcover

Glatt, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250035724 ISBN 13: 9781250035721

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2013

Synopsis

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. John Glatt tells the whole story of this twisted case of passion, perversion, and paradise lost, in Prince of Paradise.

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Praise for author John Glatt:
"John Glatt is one of the finest true crime craftsmen writing today." ―Howard Goldberg, VH1.com

"[Glatt] certainly comes through with the goods."―Library Journal

"[A] true crime page turner. ―East Bay Express on The Doctor's Wife

"Author John Glatt goes behind the headlines and into the heart of this fascinating case." ―Bookcrossing.com on Cradle of Death

"This is a great true crime book." ―Bookreporter.com on Deadly American Beauty

"Definitive tales of a dozen sets of twins gone bad." ―Twinstuff.com

"A blockbuster." ―The Globe on Depraved

"An exhaustive account ... A creepy but mesmerizing read." ―Woman's Own on Depraved

"A shocking expose of clergymen who kill." ―National Examiner on For I Have Sinned

"Fascinating reading." ―Arizona Republic on Evil Twins

"Glatt...create[s] a mood of relentless darkness." ―Crime Magazine

About the Author:

English-born JOHN GLATT is the author of twenty books, and has over thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He divides his time between New York and London.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1250035724
• ISBN 13: 9781250035721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448