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Oscar Wilde and a death of no importance / Gyles Brandreth

By:

Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster , 2008.Edition: 1st Touchstone edDescription: 347 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781416534839

Uniform titles:

Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Mystery fiction

DDC classification:

MYS BRA

LOC classification:

PR6052.R2645 O73 2008

Summary: "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 portrait of the great playwright and his own "consulting detective," Sherlock Holmes creator, Arthur Conan Doyle."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mystery	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	MYS BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		030784

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Originally published: Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders. London : John Murray, 2007.

"A Touchstone Book."

"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 portrait of the great playwright and his own "consulting detective," Sherlock Holmes creator, Arthur Conan Doyle."--BOOK JACKET.

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