Operating some of the world's most famous and exclusive hotels exposed Hans Gerhardt to the private lives of kings and queens, world leaders, and movie stars. He has been trapped on an elevator with a notorious dictator, cracked jokes with Prince Philip, drank expensive wine with Charlton Heston, helped Dudley Moore escape marauding Japanese tourists and Burt Reynolds woo Loni Anderson. David Carradine mooned him, Sophia Loren dazzled, The Queen Mother charmed, and Marlon Brando directed traffic during an early morning fire alarm. But "HotelBiz: A Memoir" is more than just a collection of fascinating anecdotes about famous people-although it is certainly that, too-it is also a compelling rags-to-riches story, how a child of the deprivation of post-war Germany became a cabin boy sailing the world and rose to become Canada's best-known hotelier. It is a story of great triumph and of heart-rending tragedy: Hans for the first time tells how he lost his son Ralph in the attack on the World Trade Center Sept 11, 2001. He takes the reader behind the scenes to detail his many years in the hotel business, from his days as a waiter at a small inn in Germany to running the Sutton Place, Toronto's premiere hotel to overseeing hotel operations in the Caribbean and Canada. Filled with insight, humor, and drama, Hans Gerhardt's "HotelBiz: A Memoir" offers a unique window into one's man's adventure-filled life and the business he loves.

Hotelbiz: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Gerhardt, Hans J.

Memoirs

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WANTED! A big, floppy-eared hound dog. Answers to the name of Clinton. The FBI wants him. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is hunting for him. All sorts of bad guys are willing to kill each other for him. What Private Detective Tree Callister can't figure out is why everyone wants Clinton. Besides, Tree has retired. He's no longer the only private detective on Sanibel Island, the laid-back paradise off the coast of Florida. Except he keeps getting dragged back into a business where people tend to shoot him. And now there's Clinton in the life of Tree and his wife, Freddie. Despite their best efforts, they've fallen in love with their new pal. Tree is determined to protect him no matter what. Even if it means getting himself killed. Ron Base's latest Tree Callister mystery thriller isn't only a fast-paced, page-turning suspense novel-it's also a heartfelt love story about the effect dogs have on our lives, and the lengths we will go to protect and cherish them. The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective will change Tree Callister's life-and it might just do the same for readers!

The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Base, Ron

Mystery

The Sanibel Sunset Detective is back-and he's in bigger trouble than ever!\nThe last thing Tree Callister wants is to get involved in the movie that is being shot on Sanibel Island. But the film deals with the Hollywood life of his best pal, Rex Baxter. Cast as Rex is the legendary movie star John Twist who was lured out of retirement to play the role.\nTwist is a nasty, difficult drunk who needs a minder to make sure he stays sober. Tree, against his better judgment, gets dragged into the job. As filming begins, everyone involved soon comes to despise Twist. Tree has his hands full trying to keep the aging star in line. 
It gets more complicated-not to mention dangerous-when a sketchy character named Shell Dean shows up accompanied by his shifty associate, Mr. Dix. Shell wants to hire Tree to find his fiancée who, he says, has been abducted by a certain famous actor currently shooting a movie in the area. 
Two dead bodies show up, Rex's movie is about to collapse-and a storm is brewing.\nOne wrong move and Tree goes to prison for the rest of his life. Or he ends up dead. As readers of the thirteen previous novels know only too well, he is adept at making all the wrong moves.\nTree finding himself nailed to a cross clad in a loincloth makes The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to the Movies the craziest, most unlikely Tree Callister adventure yet!

The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to the Movies

Literature & Fiction

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