I meet him in the coffee shop of a shabby hotel near his apartment, not far from the Millennium Monument.

The settings are often deceptively ordinary, such as cheerful suburban homes or shabby hotels.

I guess shabby hotels just treat their employees shabbily.

He looked like a traveling representative for some cheap wholesale house that no longer had a worthwhile clientele; hence his choice of a shabby hotel.

We went everywhere - nine apartments and finally a shabby hotel -and at first it was fun.

She glanced at the shabby old hotel.

I wouldn't have you going back to that shabby hotel.

And every single one of his meddling neighbors in the shabby live-in hotel has a theory on who did it and why.

Mollie nodded toward a rather shabby hotel a few doors down from the station.

"As much as he tells the truth to anyone," Margo said from the telephone booth of the shabby hotel.