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Loading... Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders (2007)by Gyles Brandreth
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HTML: 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 crimeâ??but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in the investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance is a classic murder mystery in the tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Arthur Conan Doyle. No library descriptions found. |
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sprinkled with Wilde quotes and, somehow, Wilde makes a believable detective, at least in this first of the series
Conan Doyle is also welcome and the mystery is fair and plausible, in my opinion ( )