Il corpo di un sedicenne macabramente ucciso viene trovato in una stanza in Cowley Street. È l'agosto del 1889. Il giovane si chiama Billy Wood, ed è un ragazzo di strada come tanti, e colui che lo ritrova - con la gola tagliata da un orecchio all'altro e circondato da candele ardenti - è nientemeno che il celebre scrittore Oscar Wilde, che il giorno dopo decide di denunciare il fatto a Scotland Yard. Solo che dell'orribile crimine è scomparsa qualsiasi traccia. Aiutato dall'amico Robert Sherard, lo scrittore decide di condurre le sue indagine da solo, incarnando suo malgrado quel personaggio di Sherlock Holmes che tanto ammira e calandosi nell'inquietante Londra nei cui vicoli risuonano ancora i passi di Jack lo Squartatore. Con questo romanzo nasce un nuovo investigatore: Oscar Wilde. Ammiratore di Arthur Conan Doyle e del suo impareggiabile Sherlock Holmes, l'ironico e arguto Wilde si rivela anche un abile detective dalla logica affilata come un lama.
I misteri di omicidio di Oscar Wilde Serie
Immergetevi nell'opulento mondo dell'Inghilterra vittoriana, dove i salotti intellettuali incontrano oscuri segreti. Seguite l'arguto e non convenzionale Oscar Wilde mentre applica il suo ingegno e la sua acuta osservazione per svelare complessi misteri di omicidio in Inghilterra, Scozia e Francia. Questa serie offre un avvincente mix di intrighi storici, deduzioni intelligenti e scintillante commento sociale.
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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 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.
Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with Sarah Bernhardt and to collaborate with France's most celebrated actor-manager, Edmond La Grange. Oscar discovers dark secrets lying at the heart of the La Grange company, and is confronted by murders both foul and bizarre.
Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers
- 448pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
In OSCAR WILDE AND THE NEST OF VIPERS, the fourth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate a scandalous crime at the very heart of Victorian high society... 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith
Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
- 325pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
In OSCAR WILDE AND THE VATICAN MURDERS, the fifth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the two must penetrate the highest echelons of the Catholic Church to solve a macabre series of killings. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
- 326pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly clever serial killer. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
- 368pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Case Closed is Arthur Conan Doyle's account of the events of 1894, the year of the return of Jack the Ripper. Based on Oscar Wilde's real-life friendship with Conan Doyle and the extraordinary but little-known fact that in 1894 the detective in charge of the Jack the Ripper investigations was Oscar Wilde's neighbour in Tite Street, Chelsea.