The Haunted Hotel

by Wilkie Collins

Overview

Best known for his popular forays into detective fiction, Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" blends elements of the classic whodunit with creepy overtones of Gothic horror. The tale delves into the mysterious disappearance of a newlywed aristocrat whose blushing bride may be harboring a dark secret.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412163736
Publisher:	eBooksLib
Publication date:	04/21/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	240 KB

About the Author

Wilkie Collins remains most famous for his novels The Moonstone and The Woman in White, in which he pioneered a new style of “sensation” writing, the influence of which can still be seen in today's culture in the genres of crime, mystery and suspense. He is also renowned for his close relationship with Charles Dickens, who regarded him as the most talented of his many protégés.

Date of Birth:

December 8, 1824

Date of Death:

September 23, 1889

Place of Birth:

London, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, London

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

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

APRIL 2020 - AudioFile