The Haunted Hotel

by Wilkie Collins Narrated by Michael Ward

Overview

The scandalous marriage of the Countess Narona to Lord Montbarry takes place in London to the disgust of his family. Not least to his treatment of his former betrothed: Agnes Lockwood. But scandal turns to tragedy when he dies of illness in a Venetian Palace.
Under a cloud of suspicion and mystery, the Palace is turned into a hotel, but still questions remain...
What has happened to the mysteriously missing Courier, last seen in Lord Montbarry's employ?
...and why do strange and unearthly things happen when members of his family sleep in a certain room in that hotel, the room in which he died...?
Written by that grandfather of mystery and crime, Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel is a supernatural mystery first published in 1879.
Narrated by Michael Ward.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Wilkie Collins is the finest practitioner of the novel of sensation.” —The Daily Telegraph

APRIL 2020 - AudioFile

Narrator Jonathan Keeble brings an appropriately haughty upper-crust tone to this 1879 story of a British lord, his dead brother, an odd baron, and a mysterious countess. Their fates become intertwined when the family purchases a decrepit and thoroughly uninviting palace in Venice. When the palace is refurbished into a swank hotel, arguments, incriminations, and apparitions come out of the woodwork. Keeble is especially adept at voicing the dialogue between the carefully drawn characters. Next to his good friend, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins was one of the best known and best paid British novelists of the nineteenth century. His “sensations,” or mystery/suspense novels, were all the rage and paved the way for Conan Doyle and a host of others. B.P. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2020 - AudioFile

Narrator Jonathan Keeble brings an appropriately haughty upper-crust tone to this 1879 story of a British lord, his dead brother, an odd baron, and a mysterious countess. Their fates become intertwined when the family purchases a decrepit and thoroughly uninviting palace in Venice. When the palace is refurbished into a swank hotel, arguments, incriminations, and apparitions come out of the woodwork. Keeble is especially adept at voicing the dialogue between the carefully drawn characters. Next to his good friend, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins was one of the best known and best paid British novelists of the nineteenth century. His “sensations,” or mystery/suspense novels, were all the rage and paved the way for Conan Doyle and a host of others. B.P. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940190945317
Publisher:	Independently Published
Publication date:	09/19/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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