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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries (Related to this series)
- Author
- Gyles Brandreth
- Narrator
- Bill Wallis
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 November 2011
- Run Time
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in the investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance is a classic murder mystery in the tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Critics Review
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“A witty fin de siècle entertainment, and the rattlingly elegant dialogue is peppered with witticisms uttered by Wilde well before he ever thought of putting them into his plays.”
Sunday Times (London)
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“Genius…Wilde has sprung back to life in this thrilling and richly atmospheric new novel…Magnificent…an unforgettable shocker about sex and vice, love and death.”
Sunday Express
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“This excellent novel…I’d be staggered if, by the end of 2007, you’d read many better whodunits. Brandreth demonstrates supremely measured skill as a storyteller.”
Nottingham Post
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“A first-class stunner…[A] wow of a history-mystery…Fascinating.”
Booklist (starred review)
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“Oscar Wilde makes a stylish sleuth in this clever series debut.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Brandreth…spins a tale of human frailty and self-preservation…a promising start.”
Library Journal
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“Brandreth’s accomplishment is evident in the force of Wilde’s personality, which fairly leaps off the page…readers will delight in the effortless characterization and deft portrait of late-Victorian England.”
Stephanie Barron, author of Jane and the Barque of Frailty
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Details
- Author
- Gyles Brandreth
- Narrator
- Bill Wallis
- Duration
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 November 2011
- ISBN
- 9781609985714
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
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 to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in the investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance is a classic murder mystery in the tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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