Oscar Wilde And A Game Called Murder

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416580271
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second witty installment in an astonishingly authentic historical mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner in crime, Arthur Conan Doyle It's 1892, and Wilde is the toast of London, riding high on the success of his play Lady Windemere's Fan. While celebrating with friends at a dinner party he conjures up a game called "murder" that poses the question: Who would you most like to kill? Wilde and friends -- including Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and poet Robert Sherard (the novel's narrator) -- write the names of their "victims" on pieces of paper and choose them one by one. After leaving the party, Wilde scoffs at the suggestion that he may have instigated a very dangerous game indeed.... The very next day, the game takes an all-too- sinister turn when the first "victim" turns up dead. Soon Wilde and his band of amateur detectives must travel through the realms of politics, theatre, and even boxing to unearth whose misguided passions have the potential to become deadly poisons...not only for the perpetrator of the seemingly perfect crimes but also for the trio of detectives investigating them. Richly atmospheric and as entertaining as Wilde himself, this book is the second in a series destined to delight mystery readers and fans of historical fiction alike.

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416534849
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With help from his friends Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and poet Robert Sherard, young Oscar Wilde investigates a "murder" game which turns deadly when a fantasy victim is actually killed.

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death written by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each man kills the thing he loves ...

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439153752
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172307
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde makes a triumphant return to sleuthing in the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed historical murder mystery series based on real events, featuring Wilde as the detective aided by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, and written by a premier British biographer. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders opens in 1892, as an exhausted Arthur Conan Doyle retires to a spa in Germany with a suitcase full of fan mail. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries among the letters—a finger; a lock of hair; and, finally, an entire severed hand. The trail leads the intrepid duo to Rome, and to a case that involves miracles as well as murder. Pope Pius IX has just died—these are uncertain times in the Eternal City. To uncover the mystery and discover why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned in this way, Wilde and Conan Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church and expose the deadly secrets of the six men closest to the pope. In Gyles Brandreth’s captivating and richly atmospheric novel, Wilde’s skills as a detective are put to the test in his most compelling case yet.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439153698
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders opens in 1890, at a glamorous party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London’s high society—including the Prince of Wales—are in attendance at what promises to be the event of the season. Yet Oscar Wilde is more interested in another party guest, Rex LaSalle, a young actor who claims to be a vampire. But the entertaining evening ends in tragedy when the duchess is found murdered—with two tiny puncture marks on her throat. Desperate to avoid scandal and panic, the Prince asks Oscar and his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to investigate the crime. What they discover threatens to destroy the very heart of the royal family. Told through diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and letters, Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders is a richly atmospheric mystery that is sure to captivate and entertain.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172315
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416553797
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers of historical mysteries will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. The first in a series of fiendishly clever historical murder mysteries, it casts British literature’s most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. A young artist’s model has been murdered, and legendary wit Oscar Wilde enlists his friends Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherard to help him investigate. But when they arrive at the scene of the crime they find no sign of the gruesome killing—save one small spatter of blood, high on the wall. Set in London, Paris, Oxford, and Edinburgh at the height of Queen Victoria’s reign, here is a gripping eyewitness account of Wilde’s secret involvement in the curious case of Billy Wood, a young man whose brutal murder served as the inspiration for The Picture of Dorian Gray. Told by Wilde’s contemporary—poet Robert Sherard—this novel provides a fascinating and evocative portrait of the great playwright and his own “consulting detective,” Sherlock Holmes creator, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439137285
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heading home from a lecture tour in the United States, Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, and the mystery of the serial killer targeting them after the surprising death of the family poodle.