The Haunted Hotel
by Wilkie Collins
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Author: Wilkie CollinsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-05-01
ISBN: 1587156911
Number of pages: 228
Publisher: Borgo Press
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Summary: 4 Stars
I came to hear of Wilkie Collins when doing some research on Charles Dickens. The two were friends and I had heard good things about Collins, so I decided to read one. I read, The Woman in White, which I really liked (but didn't get around to reviewing). Collins is purported to be the first to write English detective novels (and I feel lazy, so I won't be looking this up, so you are on your own for that!) and I have to say, I'm a big fan. Huge!
In this particular mystery, Agnes is betrothed to Lord Montbarry, but he ends up jilting her for the Countess Narona. Agnes is the picture of a good soul. Instead of being a shrieking, insane jilted woman, she has taken the high road and forgiven both for their transgressions against her. Lucky for us, her nurse hasn't, which does provide some comic relief for the reader.
Now, the Lord and his new Lady are going on their honeymoon, and her brother will be meeting up with them in Italy. All is well, except for the little fact that the Countess doesn't necessarily have the best reputation and the Lord's family utterly detests her. The Lord falls ill while in Venice, and the courier whom Agnes has recommended has suddenly disappeared, leaving his wife quite distraught. The mystery thickens as whisperings abound, and suddenly the Lord is dead. The Countess is to come into quite a sum of money to support her brother (and honestly, no wonder people talked about the two of them pretending to be brother and sister, Collins has the Countess maintain until the end that they are, but there is still sufficient doubt, in my mind at least.)
Needless to say, the family of the Late Lord Montbarry is distraught, but an upcoming wedding and the opening of a sibling's hotel provides a reason to go to Italy and meet up with the happy couple a month into their honeymoon. And here is where the plot thickens: the family members of the late Lord Montbarry have strange reactions to a room in the hotel, and then, the discovery!
Now, of course I can't really tell you much more, except to say that I am really loving Collins' books. I think I will be going on a Collins bender over the summer, but we'll see, as I have quite the stack of books to get through before the Fall!
Summary of The Haunted Hotel
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work? (Jacketless library hardcover.)Horror Books
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