000			02009cam a2200313 a 4500
001			047608
005			20231009192930.0
008			102406s2009 nyub b 000 1 eng
010			_a2008054129
020			_a9781416534853
050	0	0	_aPR6052.R2645 _bO734 2009
082	0	0	_aMYS BRA
100	1		_aBrandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-
245	1	0	_aOscar Wilde and the dead man's smile _b: a mystery _c/ Gyles Brandreth
250			_a1st Touchstone hardcover ed
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, 2009.
300			_axiv, 365, [11] p. _b: map _c; 21 cm.
490	1		_aThe Oscar Wilde mysteries
500			_a"A Touchstone book."
500			_aTrade pbk. binding has edition statement: 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
500			_aIncludes reading group guide.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aOscar 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.
600	1	0	_aWilde, Oscar _d(, 1854-1900) _v--Ficcion
600	1	0	_aDoyle, Arthur Conan _c, Sir _d(1859-1930) _v--Fiction
650			_aMurder investigation _v--Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c252497 _d252497