Publisher's Synopsis
"What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their hiding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!" The ghost of an English Lord haunts the Palace Hotel, a newly opened hotel in Venice. When his family members come to stay there while holidaying in Venice he seems to be appealing to them for retribution. A suspicious finger is raised at his widow and her brother. Is it all conjecture or has the late Lord Montberry been truly murdered? Mystery, ghost story, drama, thriller, and Gothic horror. "The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice" is a classic novel by Wilkie Collins, author of "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone".