Book description
The latest in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder
mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Paris, 1883.
Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to
discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with the divine Sarah
Bernhardt and to collaborate with France's most celebrated
actor-manager, Edmond La Grange. Oscar discovers dark secrets lying at
the heart of the La Grange company, and is confronted by murders both
foul and bizarre. To solve the crimes, to unravel the mystery, Oscar
risks his life -- and his reputation -- embarking on a dangerous
adventure that takes him from bohemian night clubs to an asylum for the
insane, from a duel in the Buttes de Chaumont to the gates of Reading
Gaol. Gyles Brandreth is a writer, performer, former MP and government
whip whose career has ranged from hosting Have I Got News For You to
starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London's West End.
Currently a reporter with The One Show on BBC1 and a regular on Radio
4's Just a Minute, his acclaimed Victorian detective stories - The Oscar
Wilde Murder Mysteries - are now being published in nineteen countries
around the world.
