Title Temptation Hotel Author Donald MacLaren Synopsis Temptation Hotel is a story of an easy... and perfectly executed robbery, but a perfect robbery still has its consequences. The story is set in a luxury hotel in Atlantic Beach, an upscale residential community on the south shore of Long Island. The Atlantic Beach Hotel hosts lavish, formal dinners on the order of a New Year's Eve affair every Saturday night and includes a who's who of New York City's guests. It is the place where the women guests love to show off their most expensive jewelry worth thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The hotel has been catering many such dinners, but with no security except for a single police car patrolling the 2-mile long, 2 block wide village. The robbers, led by John, make off with bags of jewelry in an easy robbery one Saturday night, but the fortunes of the other three robbers turn and soon John is left alone. As he falters in deciding what to do, John's wife, Ollie, takes over by cashing in the jewelry with a fence in New York City. More plot turns take place when newly well-dressed and bejeweled Ollie makes a trip to California, including a scene in the Beverly Hills Hotel when a young woman discovers a stolen ring. It is then what might be described as another perfect crime takes place. In fact, the hotel exists and the opulent dinners remain legendary. And, as a night manager said, "It was a robbery waiting to happen." Biography Donald MacLaren, M.A. was born and raised in New Jersey. He has worked in collaboration on the following books, now available at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com: The Road Back by Kathleen R. Watson, M.D. and Donald MacLaren (ISBN: 1-58500-980-6); Kidnapped in Acapulco by Don MacLaren (ISBN: 1-58721-583-7); From Trauma to Repair by Lois A. Reiersol, Ph.D., Lise Lian and Donald MacLaren (ISBN: 1-4033-6778-7); New York City: A Vision of the Future by Irwin Fruchtman, Professional Engineer, and Donald MacLaren (ISBN: 14033-3003-4); and The Summerville Bombers: A Baseball Mystery by Martin Silver (ISBN: 0-75961-347-8). His name appears in the Acknowledgments of several other books he has helped to write and edit: The Diamonds by J. Sorie Conteh; Behind the Tall Walls by Azar Aryanpour; Knight with Quill (Charles W. Whibley), edited by Frederick R. MacFadden, Jr.; and Musical Theater Choreography by Robert Berkson. He currently lives and works in Astoria, New York.

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