Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol: A Mystery (Original)

$16.99

SKU: 9781439153758 Category:
Author: Brandreth, Gyles
Publication Date: 05/14/2013
Publisher: Gallery Books
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book
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Description

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?