The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice (Classic Ghost Stories) - Softcover

Collins, Wilkie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533670137 ISBN 13: 9781533670137

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The Haunted Hotel

A Mystery of Modern Venice

by

Wilkie 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.

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About the Author

English novelist William Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) was a playwright and short story writer best-known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). He was born into the London family of painter William Collins and lived in Italy and France as a child learning French and Italian. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850 he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, collaborator and mentor. Some of his work was first published in All the Year Round and Household Words, run by Dickens, and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1533670137
• ISBN 13: 9781533670137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128