Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers

Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781848542495

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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.

Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper: An Oscar Wilde Mystery

Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper: An Oscar Wilde Mystery
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1643131222

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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.

Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders

Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439172293

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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.

Wilde’s Wiles

Wilde’s Wiles
Author: Annette M. Magid
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443865974

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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.

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000
Author: Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810883554

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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.

Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439172315

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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?

Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Author: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Each man kills the thing he loves ...

Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975

Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975
Author: Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2011-04-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810877848

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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.

Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle
Author: S. Vanacker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137291567

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Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity.

Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders

Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2011
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781848542501

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In 1892, an exhausted Conan Doyle was in Bad Homburg for a much needed rest. He'd brought no work but a batch of fan mail to answer. But the first person he ran into was his friend Oscar Wilde who longed for any excitement to relieve the monotony of the health spa. Oscar offers to help with the mail, but the second packet he opens contains a severed human hand. The packet comes from Rome, and it's to Rome the friends travel to solve a mystery, learning deadly secrets shared by seven men closest to the pope.