Oscar Wilde And The Dead Mans Smile

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439137285
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heading home from a lecture tour in the United States, Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, and the mystery of the serial killer targeting them after the surprising death of the family poodle.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780719569906
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile written by Gyles Brandreth and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with 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.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781408430170
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile written by Gyles Brandreth and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172315
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Bernhard Tauchnitz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by Bernhard Tauchnitz. This book was released on 1908 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Pegasus Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781643130217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Pegasus Crime. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle are recruited to track down Jack the Ripper in a novel that is at once a gripping detective story and a witty portrait of two of the most brilliant Victorian minds. London, 1894. When it appears that the notorious Jack the Ripper has returned to London, Chief Constable Melville Macnaghten recruits his neighbor Oscar Wilde to help him solve the case, hoping the author’s unparalleled knowledge of the London underworld might be exactly what the police need to finally capture the serial killer. In an account narrated by Wilde's close friend, fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilde gathers together suspects from the theaters, brothels, asylums, and traveling circuses of East London in the hopes of finding the true identity of Jack the Ripper before he can strike again. But even as the pair of amateur detectives venture further and further into the tangled web of criminals, performers, and prostitutes, new killings come to light that bring the investigation right back to Wilde’s own neighborhood. Following Wilde and Doyle’s search for the Ripper, Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper combines a gripping detective story with a witty portrait of two of the most brilliant and charming literary minds of Victorian London.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Reading Gaol written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416551743
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance written by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders. London : John Murray, 2007.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848543727
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810885891
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film written by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available—including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films—this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices—a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards—and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.