Name: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
SKU: 60700918
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781533670137

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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4x17.8x0.7 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781533670137

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

The Haunted HotelA Mystery of Modern VenicebyWilkie Collins(1824-1889) Wilkie Collins's ghost story was set in 1860 and published in book form with 'My Lady's Money'. In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times.One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had just taken his luncheon after a specially hard morning's work in his consulting-room, and with a formidable list of visits to patients at their own houses to fill up the rest of his day--when the servant announced that a lady wished to speak to him.

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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