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Title: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 0-486-24333-8 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: perhaps the best Collins's later works?
Comment: Wilkie Collins writing career spanned some 30 years (1850-1880). During the last ten years his writing skills declined due to poor health and opium addiction; some of his later novels are really bad (semi-theatrical melodramas). Surprisingly 'The Haunted Hotel', one of the last works by Wilkie Collins, is a rather nice, compact ghost story. Fans of Wilkie Collins will be pleased.
The story is about, um.., a haunted hotel. Several characters, mostly squabbling aristocrats, return to the Venetian home (now hotel) of a deceased colleague (..a rather nasty fellow). The past comes to haunt these guests in rather metaphysical ways. It's all a bit silly, of course. But the decent prose and characterizations save 'The Haunted Hotel' from being some camp ghost story.
Bottom line: certainly not a classic but enjoyable nonetheless.
Rating: 4
Summary: ...
Comment: ...This little volume contains enough suspense, fog, and familial twists-and-turns to satisfy any modern mystery fan (if one overlooks the inherent sexism that dates this book)...not to mention the delicious sense of voyeurism in peeking in on this group of gentle Englishfolk. Read it and remember when mystery writers could actually write.
Rating: 5
Summary: True Collins Style.
Comment: If you are a Wilkie Collins fan, well then, add this title to your list. I have. A story filled with suspenses and mystery. It keeps you turning the pages until the end. Who killed the count or did anyone? What happened to the courier? Is the countess mad? Told partly by letters and differing characters' perspective it is typical of Collins' narrative style. He takes the readers to a most stupendous climax in Venice. It is a ghost story, a fun read, like watching an old black and white movie. Recommeded!
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Title: The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 0486237753 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1979 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: No Name by Wilkie Collins, Virginia Blain ISBN: 019283388X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 055321263X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Armadale by Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland ISBN: 0140434119 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Blind Love by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 0486251896 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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