Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel
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Such fame as Wilkie Collins enjoys today rests mostly on two books, The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). these sensation novels were immensely popular and were also an important stage in the development of modern crime fiction. His later works were less commercially successful and are much less highly thought of today, but The Haunted Hotel (published in 1878) is both surprisingly interesting and highly enjoyable.
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dfordoom)Such fame as Wilkie Collins enjoys today rests mostly on two books, The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). these sensation novels were immensely popular and were also an important stage in the development of modern crime fiction. His later works were less commercially successful and are much less highly thought of today, but The Haunted Hotel (published in 1878) is both surprisingly interesting and highly enjoyable.
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