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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

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The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
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Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN/ASIN: 1604507187
Number of pages: 321

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Famed for his detective literature, Wilkie Collins often preferred to indulge his predilection for the occult. Venice provides the scenery and fatal beauty, the grim waterways and palaces which the author haunts with mysterious women, grotesques, and bloody conspiracies.

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