Donald Novis

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.

An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

An affair is almost exposed when Claire's husband unexpectedly returns early from the Summer Olympics.