Signet, New York, 2002, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-451-20715-7.  MMPB, 242 pages including Historical Note.  Unread copy; pages lightly tanned.  ‘When Martin Prince, editorial director for a prestigious American publishing company, throws a holiday party at the lavish Le Grand Hotel, he has no idea that his upscale soiree will become the setting for savage murder.  With a flamboyant writer dead, an entire floor of suspects, and the claim of haunted hallways, Professor John Darnell is called to the City of Light to unravel the mystery.  A shrewd detective whose specialty is discrediting the supernatural, he doesn’t believe that either the victim or the killer is a phantom.  Darnell enlists the help of young journalist Ernest Hemingway, and together they must find the murderer – before another hotel guest checks out prematurely….’ (from rear wrap)