Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders

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In OSCAR WILDE & THE CANDLELIGHT MURDERS the first in Gyles Brandreths acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle the brutal murder of a young rent-boy puts Oscar in grave danger... Intelligent amusing & entertaining Alexander Mc Call Smith London 1889. Oscar Wilde celebrated poet wit playwright & raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime
- but it is Wildes unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life from society drawing rooms & the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption & intrigue of Wildes growing success of the breakdown of his marriage & of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser Inspector at Scotland Yard... Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London Paris Oxford & Edinburgh Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wildes trademark sardonic wit with huge flair intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.