Name: L'Hotel Hante (in French)
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Author: Edibooks ; Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781534661363

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Illustrated by

Edibooks

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

196

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781534661363

Synopsis "L'Hotel Hante (in French)"

Le précurseur de la detective novel, le Gaboriau anglais, les qualificatifs ne manquent pas pour qualifier le premier grand auteur de romans policiers anglais, des années avant Arthur Conan Doyle et son SHerlock Holmes. Après un mariage scandaleux, Lord Montbarry décède en voyage de noces dans un hôtel à Venise. Malgré les circonstances troubles, une enquête diligentée par les assurances ne trouve rien de suspect... Mais alors, pourquoi la veuve Montbarry semble sombrer dans la folie, comme sous le poids d'un secret terrible ?...

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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