Midnight at the Barclay Hotel

Kendra Levin, while at Viking, acquired world rights to Midnight at the Barclay Hotel by middle-grade author Fleur Bradley, pitched as in the tradition of The Westing Game with a touch of Clue. Aneeka Kalia will edit. Five murder suspects are invited to the haunted Barclay Hotel, and it's up to the tag-along kids JJ and Penny—and a ghost—to figure out who committed the crime. Xavier Bonet will illustrate. Publication is planned for fall 2020; Laurel Symonds at the Bent Agency represented the author, and Hannah Whitty at Plum Pudding Illustration represented the illustrator.