In OSCAR WILDE & THE RING OF DEATH the second in Gyles Brandreths acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle a parlour game of Murder has lethal consequences... Intelligent amusing & entertaining Alexander Mc Call Smith I see murder in this unhappy h&... When Mrs Robinson palmist to the Prince of Wales reads Oscar Wildes 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 & in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag... With growing horror Wilde & his confidantes Robert Sherard & 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 & knowledge of human behaviour before he himself
- the thirteenth name on the list
- becomes the killers next victim.