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The Haunted Hotel

Autor Wilkie Collins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2011
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783842436671
ISBN-10: 384243667X
Pagini: 204
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS

Descriere

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An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls ill and dies in a decaying Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a note containing one thousand pounds.

With the palazzo now transformed into a luxury hotel, and the late Lord Montbarry's family in residence, these strands begin to come together, yet strange and macabre events are occurring, and the dead seem unable to rest.

Recenzii

Wilkie Collins is the finest practitioner of the novel of sensation.

Notă biografică

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is considered the inventor of the modern English detective novel with his book The Moonstone (1868). A contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens, who serialized many of Collins' works in magazines he edited, Collins is also remembered for his classic mystery The Woman in White.