The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

"The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice" by Wilkie Collins is a mystery novel set in the late 1800s, introducing a well-known London doctor, Wybrow, being asked to help a strange woman with her mental health, but reveals a complex story of a hasty marriage, a disturbing history, and doubts about her soon-to-be husband. As Doctor Wybrow reluctantly agrees to see a foreign woman who is described as sickly and having dark eyes, he learns she expects she is slowly losing her mind, and the woman tells him of her upcoming marriage to a man who was once engaged to another, causing her to feel an unusual sense of dread upon encountering that woman. As he struggles with her odd story, suspense fills the air, dark secrets rise to the surface, and hints of the supernatural start to emerge implying many moral problems that surround the story.