No Escape — John Daniels

A great many things occur in the labyrinthine corridors and the many rooms of a large metropolitan hotel. The Grand was no exception. The rambling old inn was witness to many incidents in the lives of its guests; a silent watcher to the sins committed by the seekers of love, hate, and every other emotion that can be concealed behinds the locked doors and sturdy walls of a hotel.

When Jane Pilsudski's father died after a plunge from the top story of the hotel -- some say suicidal jump -- The Grand was left in her hands, to try to manage and renew the once sparkling reputation of the place.

It wasn't easy. On the surface it appeared that a new coat of paint, a new dining room, or new furniture would do the job; but once Jane started scraping beneath the exterior trappings she discovered a building built on sin with a core of pure lust and evil. She discovered the rooms with strange devices, the one way mirrors, the waiting movie cameras -- all instruments of vice and perversion. Even her mother fought to keep the secrets of the old hotel locked, anonymously, in the sealed rooms.

Jane, however, was not about to be stopped in her desire to renew the hotel. But what she learned in the process was almost enough to make her run, sickened and revolted, as far away as she could go.