Wilkie Collins's most openly supernatural novel begins with a marriage of convenience and a death in Venice. A penniless countess with an unreadable face weds an English lord who does not live long — and the very palace where he died is now a hotel, with a single room that no guest will sleep in twice. Written in 1878 as a detective plot that gives itself up and lets the ghost win, this edition presents Collins's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 35 full-page color plates.