OSCAR WILDE AND A DEATH OF NO IMPORTANCE By: Gyles Brandreth
Oscar Wilde #1
Touchstone
January 2008
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Featuring: Oscar Wilde
368 pages ISBN: 1416534830 EAN: 9781416534839 Kindle: B001269F8Y Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries
Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, 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.
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