Oscar Wilde And The Vatican Murders (Oscar Wilde Mystery #5)

Author: Gyles Brandreth

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Price : 24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781848542525
Publisher : John Murray General Publishing Division
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Publication date : February 2012
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Author : Gyles Brandreth
Series : Oscar Wilde Mystery
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In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer - a severed finger, a lock of hair and finally an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Eternal City, the Vatican itself. Pope Pius IX has just died. These are uncertain times. To uncover the mystery and why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned in this way, Oscar and Conan Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church - seven men who have a very great deal to lose.

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Gyles Brandreth is a writer, performer, former MP and government whip whose career has ranged from hosting Have I Got News For You to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London's West End. Currently a reporter with The One Show on BBC1 and a regular on Radio 4's Just a Minute, his acclaimed Victorian detective stories - The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries - are now being published in twenty-one countries around the world. Previous Books: Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers, Something Sensational to Read in the Train, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile; Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death; Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders.