Oscar Wilde And The Nest Of Vipers

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781848542495
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers written by Gyles Brandreth and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. Spring, 1890. A glamorous reception is 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 the heir apparent and the prince of aesthetes are friends, at the party Oscar appears more interested in a young actor, Rex LaSalle, who disarmingly claims to be a vampire. What begins as a diverting evening ends in tragedy. As the guests are about to leave, the Duchess is found murdered in an anteroom, two tiny puncture marks in her throat. Desperate to avoid a public scandal, the Prince of Wales asks Oscar and his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to investigate the crime. What they discover threatens to destroy the royal family ... and the reputation of Oscar Wilde.

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 : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643131222
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper: An Oscar Wilde Mystery written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 368 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 a tangled web of criminals, performers, and prostitutes, new killings come to light that bring the investigation right back to Wilde’s own neighborhood.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416987207
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( 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 2009-09-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by French impresario Edmond La Grange. As Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, he suspects that all is not as it seems. What begins with a curious death at sea soon escalates to a series of increasingly macabre tragedies once the troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet. A strange air of indifference surrounds these seemingly random events, inciting Oscar to dig deeper, aided by his friends Robert Sherard and the divine Sarah Bernhardt. What he discovers is a horrifying secret -- one that may bring him closer to his own last chapter than anyone could have imagined. As intelligent as it is beguiling, this third installment in the richly historical mystery series is sure to captivate and entertain.

Author : Annette M. Magid
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865974
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilde’s Wiles written by Annette M. Magid and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays which celebrates the diversity of Oscar Wilde’s genius. This unique collection of scholarship explores not only his influence on a broad spectrum of subjects including: aesthetics, children’s literature, women’s issues, consumer economics, queer theory, politics, theater, film, poetry, Victorianism and other aspects of culture such as pedagogical approaches to Wilde’s literature, but it also examines the influence of his family and friends on him. Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century includes a wide range of approaches and concentrations written by international experts and has a broad spectrum of subjects which will appeal to a diversity of scholars seeking original and alternative approaches to understanding Oscar Wilde. The multiplicity of interest in the topic of Oscar Wilde expands across genres, disciplines, cultures and time, this being the second century of Wilde scholarship since his untimely death in November 1900 preceding the fin-de siècle. The unique, multi-discipline approach of Wilde’s Wiles is organized in three sections: “Aesthetic Approaches,” “Friends and Family,” and “Performance and Pedagogy” and bridges philosophical, sociological, psychological, economic and literary disciplines.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848545290
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly clever serial killer. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, Oscar's 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? In this, the latest novel in his acclaimed Oscar Wilde murder mystery series, Gyles Brandreth takes us deep into the dark heart of Wilde's cruel incarceration.

Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810883554
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing more than 80 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1975 and 2000. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well-known and respected critics and scholars.

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death written by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each man kills the thing he loves ...

Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877848
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing more than 120 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1950 and 1975.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172293
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders opens in 1890, at a glamorous party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London’s high society—including the Prince of Wales—are in attendance at what promises to be the event of the season. Yet Oscar Wilde is more interested in another party guest, Rex LaSalle, a young actor who claims to be a vampire. But the entertaining evening ends in tragedy when the duchess is found murdered—with two tiny puncture marks on her throat. Desperate to avoid scandal and panic, the Prince asks Oscar and his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to investigate the crime. What they discover threatens to destroy the very heart of the royal family. Told through diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and letters, Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders is a richly atmospheric mystery that is sure to captivate and entertain.