Gyles Brandreth, Author . Touchstone $14 (347p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3483-9
Oscar Wilde makes a stylish sleuth in this clever series debut from Brandreth, a British author best known as a biographer (John Gielgud: An Actor's Life
, etc.). Narrating the tale from his old age, poet Robert Sherard enjoys recalling the...
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Gyles Brandreth, Author . Touchstone $14 (394p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3484-6
In British author Brandreth's impressive second Oscar Wilde mystery (after 2007's Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
), the aesthete and playwright proves himself a brilliant and insightful sleuth. At a May 1892 meeting of the...
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Gyles Brandreth, Author . Touchstone $14 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3485-3
Oscar Wilde once again makes a convincing detective in Brandreth's excellent third whodunit to recreate the late Victorian age (after 2008's Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
). Framed as a puzzle posed by Wilde to his friend Arthur...
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Gyles Brandreth, S&S/Touchstone, $14 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5368-0
Brandreth stumbles in his subpar fourth mystery featuring Oscar Wilde as sleuth (after 2009's Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile). On the evening of March 13, 1890, Wilde attends a party along with the cream of English society, including the...
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Gyles Brandreth. S&S/Touchstone, $14 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5373-4
Arthur Conan Doyle plays Watson to Oscar Wilde in Brandreth’s strong fifth whodunit featuring Wilde as a Holmesian sleuth (after 2011’s Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders). In July 1892, Holmes’s creator runs into his friend Wilde while on holiday...
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Gyles Brandreth. S&S/Touchstone, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5375-8
After two subpar outings (most recently 2012’s Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders), Brandreth returns to form with his outstanding sixth Victorian whodunit, making the most of a difficult but intriguing premise. What if Oscar Wilde, while held...
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Gyles Brandreth. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-64313-021-7
In 1894, the powers-that-be fear that a newspaper is about to revive the rumor that Jack the Ripper was a royal, in Brandreth’s subpar seventh whodunit pairing Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle (after 2013’s Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading...
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Gyles Brandreth. Atria, $26 (290p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2740-4
Self-styled “language obsessive and... punctuation perfectionist” Brandreth (Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper), a mystery novelist, BBC broadcaster, and former member of Parliament, defends the correct use of English in this witty usage
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Gyles Brandreth. St. Martin’s, $33 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-42990-2
Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne had “uncanny access to the secrets of the human heart,” contends journalist Brandreth (Elizabeth) in this affectionate account of the children’s classic. Born in London in 1882, Milne had early success with his...
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