The Hotel — Elizabeth Bowen

Glittering brightly, it lay like a luxurious jewel on the opulent Riviera -- the perfect adornment for Sydney Warren. Lovely and enigmatic Sydney, who certainly was dangerous and might well be profoundly evil, yet who drew to her all the very wealthy, very lost people in reach. As Sydney took them, one by one, prisoners of her will, the hotel became a maelstrom of loosed passions from which there was no decent release.