Wilkie Collins 
Haunted Hotel 
A Mystery of Modern Venice

Horror lies waiting. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man s fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess Narona marries Agnes Lockwood s fianc and takes him to live in a rundown Venetian palace, strange things start happening, a servant mysteriously vanishes and the husband dies a recluse. But the dead won t rest. When the palace is transformed into a hotel the two women are drawn to its chambers, where a force stronger than death is waiting to wreak its vengeance …