In OSCAR WILDE & THE NEST OF VIPERS the fourth in Gyles Brandreths acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate a scandalous crime at the very heart of Victorian high society... Intelligent amusing & entertaining Alexander Mc Call Smith The story opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke & Duchess of Albemarle. All Londons haut monde is there including the Prince of Wales who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar & Bertie have met Oscar seems far more interested in Rex La Salle a young actor who disarmingly claims to be a vampire... However what begins as a diverting evening ends in tragedy. As the guests are leaving the Duchess is found murdered two tiny puncture marks in her throat. No one has entered the house; no one has left. Desperate to avoid another scandal the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate the crime. What he discovers threatens to destroy the very heart of the Royal Family...