L'Hôtel Hanté

Wilkie Collins

In this mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, a hasty marriage involving Lord Montbarry unsettles those around him, especially Agnes Lockwood. The story moves from London to Venice, where an old palace becomes a hotel marked by disturbing signs. Letters, testimony, family tensions, and secrets from the past fuel an investigation with a Gothic atmosphere, poised between rational appearances and the uncanny.