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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Hubbard, Cory, Hubbard\'s entitled A Key to the Suite.
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conversations.value: A Key to the Suite: We are introduced to Floyd Hubbard as his flight descends toward an airport in an unnamed, sunny and hot East coast beach city.\nHubbard will be attending a convention as a representative of American General Machine (AGM).\nFred "Freddy" Frick, local Assistant District Manager, is aware of Hubbard\'s true reason for attending the convention.\nFrick decides to set up Hubbard in the hope that it will soften his report to the corporate office, and protect his job.\nFrick meets with Cory Barlund, a prostitute, and together they decide the best way to get to Hubbard would be for her to pose as a freelance writer doing a story on local conventions.\nShe will seduce Hubbard, then "make some horribly slutty embarrassing scene in front of all the people he most wants not to know about his sneaky little romance," and this, Frick hopes, will be enough to send Hubbard back to the corporate headquarters with his tail between his legs.\nLater, Hubbard circulates at the company hospitality suite and is introduced to Cory.\nThrough many cocktail conversations, we learn that Hubbard is well-read, considerate, and uneasy with his administrative duties within the corporation, preferring to be the metallurgist he had been before.\nAt dinner in the banquet hall, he spots Cory who appears to be fighting off the advances of various men from all sides.\nEventually he rescues her, and they leave, exchanging stories about their lives.\nHubbard is happily married with children, Cory is divorced, has one child "defective, institutionalized," has money, and lives alone, "and [tries] to like it.\n" Before the night is over they kiss and the evening ends abruptly, Cory feigning guilt, Hubbard suffering the real thing.\nCory does not want to go through with the plan to blackmail Hubbard, but is convinced by Alma, her madame, that she not only is having the same second-thoughts she usually does, but that she "wouldn\'t want to have to send Ernie around to straighten [her] out again.\n" The threat works, and we see Cory for the first time not in control of her circumstances.\nShe assures Alma she will go through with the plan.\nBack at the convention, Cory convinces Hubbard she needs to change some film for her camera in his room, and there she seduces him.\nAfterward, Cory is cruel to Hubbard, about his wife and about his fall from grace.\nThough Hubbard doesn\'t know this, she had thought that he was different than other men and would not succumb to her charms.\nAfter they argue, she leaves, assuring him he\'ll come back for more.\nThe next day, she taunts Hubbard at a convention party at the pool, and he rebuffs her advances.\nLater that evening, Hubbard returns to his room and finds Cory there, nude and in his shower.\nHe rebuffs her again, and now Cory softens.\nShe tells Hubbard about Frick\'s plan to employ "soft blackmail" to keep his reports positive, and explains what happened in her life to lead her to what she has become today.\nHubbard leaves Cory in his room and proceeds to get visibly drunk among the rest of the conventioneers.\nCory drifts off to sleep in Hubbard\'s bed.\nMeanwhile, one of the men Cory had rejected earlier, Dave Daniels, has gotten very drunk and extracted Hubbard\'s room key from him by force.\nHubbard, drunk himself, passes out in a hallway.\nIn Hubbard\'s room, Daniels finds Cory, rapes and kills her.\nAfter sobering up some, he sets it up to look like she fell in the shower and attempts to make his escape via the balcony.\nHe slips and falls eight stories to his death.\nBecause the hotel is such a large part of the local economy, and because the police are unsympathetic to "one dead flooze" they decide to call both deaths accidental and unconnected.\nAll involved are cleared of any wrongdoing.\nLater, Hubbard makes his report over the phone to the corporate honchos while Jesse Mulaney sits in the room listening.\nMulaney has got to go, he\'s "too limited for the job.\n" Mulaney accuses Hubbard of enjoying his job as hatchet man, and Hubbard suspects he might be right.\nOn his flight home, Hubbard dreams of Cory pulling his heart from his chest, and despite his protestations to the contrary, he knows he has already lost it.