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Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper, April 2019
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Oscar Wilde And The Murders At The Reading Gaol, May 2013
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Oscar Wilde And The Vatican Murders, May 2012
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Oscar Wilde And The Vampire Murders, May 2011
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Oscar Wilde And The Dead Man's Smile, September 2009
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Oscar Wilde And A Game Called Murder, September 2008
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Oscar Wilde And A Death Of No Importance, January 2008
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Philip And Elizabeth, November 2006
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Charles And Camilla, August 2006
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OSCAR WILDE AND A GAME CALLED MURDER
By: Gyles Brandreth

Oscar Wilde Mystery #2
Touchstone
September 2008
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Featuring: Oscar Wilde
416 pages
ISBN: 1416534849
EAN: 9781416534846
Kindle: B0015DYKUW
Trade Size / e-Book
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Mystery Historical

Oscar Wilde--author, playwright, bon vivant--and sleuth?

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.