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A first installment of a new series finds controversial social figure Oscar Wilde enlisting the aid of friends Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherard in the investigation of a young artist model's murder, a case that eventually becomes the inspiration for The Picture of Dorian Gray. Simultaneous.
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"I always wanted to meet Oscar Wilde and now I feel that I have done, and shared a terrific, bizarre and frightening adventure with him. I recommend the experience." -- Anne Perry
"Brandreth's accomplishment is evident in the force of Wilde's personality, which fairly leaps off the page...readers will delight in the effortless characterization and deft portrait of late-Victorian England." -- Stephanie Barron, author of Jane and the Barque of Frailty
"Genius...Wilde has sprung back to life in this thrilling and richly atmospheric new novel.... Magnificent...an unforgettable shocker about sex and vice, love and death." -- Sunday Express
"This excellent novel...I'd be staggered if, by the end of 2007, you'd read many better whodunnits. Brandreth demonstrates supremely measured skill as a storyteller." -- Nottingham Evening Post
"Wilde as detective is thoroughly convincing.... The period, and the two or three worlds in which Wilde himself moved, are richly evoked...an excellent detective story. I'm keenly looking forward to the rest of the series." -- The District Messenger, journal of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London
"Brandreth...spins a tale of human frailty and self-preservation...a promising start." -- Library Journal
"Oscar Wilde makes a stylish sleuth in this clever series debut." -- Publishers Weekly
"A first-class stunner...[A] wow of a history-mystery...fascinating..." -- Booklist (Starred review)
"A witty fin de siècle entertainment, and the rattlingly elegant dialogue is peppered with witticisms uttered by Wilde well before he ever thought of putting them into his plays." -- Sunday Times (London)
About the Author
Gyles Brandreth is a prominent BBC broadcaster, theatre producer, novelist, and biographer. He has written bestselling biographies of Britain's royal family and an acclaimed diary of his years as a member of Parliament. Visit OscarWildeMurderMysteries.net.
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- PublisherTouchstone Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1416551743
- ISBN 13 9781416551744
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages347
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