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Oscar Wilde And A Game Called Murder
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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The second witty installment in an astonishingly
authentic historical mystery series featuring detective
Oscar Wilde and his partner in crime, Arthur Conan
DoyleIt'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.
Oscar Wilde Mysteries
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