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Gyles Brandreth
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Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers
Автор: Gyles Brandreth Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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The fourth of Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London's haut monde is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met, Oscar seems far more interested in Rex LaSalle, 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...
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
Автор: Gyles Brandreth Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112010-07-24
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One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries. Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. A young artist's model has been murdered, and legendary wit Oscar Wilde enlists his friends Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherard to help him investigate. But when they arrive at the scene of the crime they find no sign of the gruesome killing — save one small spatter of blood, high on the wall. Set in London, Paris, Oxford, and Edinburgh at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, here is a gripping eyewitness account of Wilde's secret involvement in the curious case of Billy Wood, a young man whose brutal murder served as the inspiration for «The Picture of Dorian Gray». Told by Wilde's contemporary — poet Robert Sherard — this novel provides a fascinating and evocative portrait of the great playwright and his own «consulting detective», Sherlock Holmes creator, Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Автор: Gyles Brandreth Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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This work is set in London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and 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 Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and 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 and intrigue, of Wilde's growing success, of the breakdown of his marriage, and of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser, Inspector at Scotland Yard! Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London, Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wilde's 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.
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Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Автор: Gyles Brandreth Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's 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, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag! With growing horror, Wilde and his confidantes Robert Sherard and 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 and knowledge of human behaviour before he himself — the thirteenth name on the list — becomes the killer's next victim.
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Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile
Автор: Gyles Brandreth Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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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.
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