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

    Written by John Glatt

    Narrated by Shaun Grindell

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    A millionaire playboy

    Ben Novack, Jr., was born into a hotel empire, Miami's lavish Fontainbleau. But his luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would ironically end in another hotel room-where the police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death.

    A history of violence

    Seven years earlier, police found Novack in an eerily similar situation-when his ex-stripper 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.

    A family murder mystery

    Prosecutors believed Narcy let the killers into the room and watched them brutalize Novack. They also suspected she was involved in the death of Novack's mother, who took a fatal fall months before. Strangely, it was Narcy's own daughter who implicated her to the police-in this twisted case of passion, perversion, and paradise lost . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 9, 2019
    ISBN9781630155407
    Author

    John Glatt

    English-born JOHN GLATT is the author of more than thirty books including The Lost Girls and My Sweet Angel, and has over thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He has appeared on television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, ABC’s 20/20, BBC World News, and A&E Biography.

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    • 5/5
      I’m writing this at chapter 35. I’ve had to stop listening because I am so disgusted and upset about Bernice who I would have been proud to know. To her sister and her lovely friends I am so very sorry for your loss. As an adopted child I have some empathy with Bernice regarding being fostered and I know my adopted Dad never never wanted anyone to know I wasn’t his biological daughter however it was revealed during his eulogy and I remember the pain inside me knowing how he would have hated it all.
      This book is amazing as are all this author’s writings and the narrator is my favourite on audio listening.
    • 3/5
      First off, the book was well written, kudos to the author. This was another one of those books that combine greed and stupidity, but this time for both the victim and the accused. There are hundreds of murders like this, you just have to watch the news. The difference in this case, the victim was semi-known and from a Florida - famous family. I struggled with this book since I was unfamiliar with the murder case, the Fountainbleu Hotel and the characters. Stupidity won out in the end and the fumbling, bumbling, illiterate stripper wife was convicted. You could see it coming a mile away. One thumb barely up.
    • 5/5
      Reads like a novel and provides a fascinating look at the dark side of the rich and famous.
    • 4/5
      Great book. Lots of interesting detail/history of the Fontainebleu Hotel. The man who was 'Mr. Fontainebleu ', and his son .. such sad lives.. and all that money..
    • 3/5
      Though I live in the area and am certainly familiar with the famous hotel, now a converted resort residence, I was not aware of the story behind the murders. The book presents a fascinating history of the founding of the Fontainebleu Hotel by Ben Novack and the struggles to keep it in the family.Ben Novack Jr. the son and mother are murdered by his second wife and her brother in an attempt to take over what remained of the family fortune. Ben Jr. despite his nature as a spoiled only child did succeed in making his own fortune in the convention planning business. Narcy the plotting wife was a strip dancer whose greed drove the motive for the slayings.I found the early part of the book fascinating in the biographical content of the building and operation of the famous hotel along with the life of both Ben Sr. and Ben Jr.. The murder and particularly the details of the trial and prosecution at times got bogged down in the detail but overall an intriguing book on the drives and motivations that led to the horrific crime.