Welcome to the Hotel Noir, peerless gem of hospitality and sole holder of a Michelin star on the island of St. Germaine.When the controversial American author Francis Stein is stabbed to death in the hotel's environs, the search for his murderer takes islander Bat Manley north to the other half of Stein's double life, south to St. Germaine's vice-ridden slums, and finally into the realm of the psyche, where the blind see and the dead speak.A kaleidoscopic striptease of the human soul, Hotel Noir will make you sweat.