The Surprises of an Empty Hotel

Plot Summary

Regular guest Francis Marchmont visiting the seaside Hotel Continental, now mostly deserted due to a diphtheria epidemic, meets and befriends a mysterious woman, "Mrs. Lucie Fairbanks," only to discover she and another woman are rivals, both common-law claimants to the fortune of his hated enemy, the late copper magnate Thomas Cadwallader Bennet, leading to a night of intrigue and mistaken identities in the empty hotel.

Top Cast

Charles Richman Francis Trehurn Marchmont

Leo Delaney Charles Manders

Charles Eldridge Thomas Cadwallader Bennt

William R. Dunn Alfred the Count

Robert Gaillard Henry Barclay