Oscar Wilde and a game called murder / Gyles Brandreth.
It'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 question: 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1416579753
- ISBN: 9781416579755
- ISBN: 1416575790
- ISBN: 9781416534846 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 1416534849 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: 402 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
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General Note: | Originally published: Oscar Wilde and the ring of death. London : John Murray, 2008. |
Target Audience Note: | All Ages. |
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Subject: | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 > Fiction. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 > Fiction. Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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