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The Haunted Hotel

Autor Wilkie Collins
en Limba Engleză Paperback
Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name, but this was also one of his acclaimed works.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781518792311
ISBN-10: 1518792316
Pagini: 142
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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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.