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.
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.
