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I misteri di omicidio di Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile
Oscar Wilde e i delitti a lume di candela
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol

Ordine di lettura consigliato

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    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.

    Oscar Wilde e i delitti a lume di candela
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    In OSCAR WILDE AND THE RING OF DEATH, the second in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, a parlour game of 'Murder' has lethal consequences... 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith 'I see murder in this unhappy hand...' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag... With growing horror, Wilde and his confidantes Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realise that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time, Wilde will need all his powers of deduction and knowledge of human behaviour before he himself - the thirteenth name on the list - becomes the killer's next victim.

    Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
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    Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by French impresario Edmond La Grange. As Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, he suspects that all is not as it seems. What begins with a curious death at sea soon escalates to a series of increasingly macabre tragedies once the troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet. A strange air of indifference surrounds these seemingly random events, inciting Oscar to dig deeper, aided by his friends Robert Sherard and the divine Sarah Bernhardt. What he discovers is a horrifying secret -- one that may bring him closer to his own last chapter than anyone could have imagined. As intelligent as it is beguiling, this third installment in the richly historical mystery series is sure to captivate and entertain.

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile
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    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 Nest of Vipers
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    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 Vatican Murders
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    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

    Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
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    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.

    Jack the Ripper: Case Closed