Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Arnold Böcklin and Piet Mondrian. A countess with no fortune and an unreadable face marries an English lord who dies at Venice, and the palace where it happened is now a hotel, with one room nobody sleeps in twice. Collins wrote it in 1878, deep into the laudanum, and it is his most frankly supernatural book — a detective plot that gives up and lets the ghost win. Fifty-six plates of Venetian intrigue and storm, from Goya to Böcklin, give the ghost a face.