Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders Ssb

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848543727
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark, stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime -- but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption and intrigue, of Wilde's growing success, of the breakdown of his marriage, and of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser, Inspector at Scotland Yard...Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London, Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wilde's trademark sardonic wit with huge flair, intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781444724158
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders - Ssb written by Gyles Brandreth and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416551743
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance written by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders. London : John Murray, 2007.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781444724134
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death - Ssb written by Gyles Brandreth and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : 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 : 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 Brandreth
Publisher : Oscar Wilde Mystery
ISBN 13 : 9781848542556
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Oscar Wilde Mystery. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly clever serial killer. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, Oscar's 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? In this, the latest novel in his acclaimed Oscar Wilde murder mystery series, Gyles Brandreth takes us deep into the dark heart of Wilde's cruel incarceration.

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9781848542525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders written by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde. When the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer, the game is once more afoot.

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 ...