Name: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781530068579

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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781530068579

Synopsis "The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice"

Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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