Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948- <br/><br/>
Oscar Wilde and the dead man's smile  : a mystery 
/ Gyles Brandreth 
 - 1st Touchstone hardcover ed 
 - New York  : Simon & Schuster  , 2009. 
 - xiv, 365, [11] p.  : map  ; 21 cm. 
 - The Oscar Wilde mysteries .
<br/><br/> "A Touchstone book."  Trade pbk. binding has edition statement: 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.  Includes reading group guide. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Oscar Wilde once again makes a convincing detective in Brandreth's excellent third whodunit to recreate the late Victorian age (after 2008's Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder). Framed as a puzzle posed by Wilde to his friend Arthur Conan Doyle in 1890, this adventure concerns a series of mysterious deaths plaguing a French acting troupe, the Compagnie La Grange, which Wilde encounters aboard ship in 1883. The first death is of a poodle, Marie Antoinette, whose body a customs officer in Liverpool unearths in a dirt-filled trunk that Wilde believed to be full of books he was bringing home from America. Human victims follow, forcing Wilde and his Watson, real-life journalist and Wilde biographer Robert Sherard, to untangle the complicated nest of emotions at play among the members of the Compagnie La Grange. John Dickson Carr fans will be gratified to find echoes of his style in several places, including the use of false endings. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416534853 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008054129 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wilde, Oscar (, 1854-1900) ----Ficcion<br/>Doyle, Arthur Conan , Sir  (1859-1930) ----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Murder investigation----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Mystery fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6052.R2645  / O734 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>MYS BRA