Gyles Brandreth, Author . Touchstone $14 (347p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3483-9
Oscar Wilde makes a stylish sleuth in this clever series debut from Brandreth, a British author best known as a biographer (John Gielgud: An Actor's Life
, etc.). Narrating the tale from his old age, poet Robert Sherard enjoys recalling the...
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Gyles Brandreth, Author . Touchstone $14 (394p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3484-6
In British author Brandreth's impressive second Oscar Wilde mystery (after 2007's Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
), the aesthete and playwright proves himself a brilliant and insightful sleuth. At a May 1892 meeting of the...
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Gyles Brandreth, Author . Touchstone $14 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3485-3
Oscar Wilde once again makes a convincing detective in Brandreth's excellent third whodunit to recreate the late Victorian age (after 2008's Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
). Framed as a puzzle posed by Wilde to his friend Arthur...
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Gyles Brandreth, S&S/Touchstone, $14 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5368-0
Brandreth stumbles in his subpar fourth mystery featuring Oscar Wilde as sleuth (after 2009's Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile). On the evening of March 13, 1890, Wilde attends a party along with the cream of English society, including the...
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Gyles Brandreth. S&S/Touchstone, $14 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5373-4
Arthur Conan Doyle plays Watson to Oscar Wilde in Brandreth’s strong fifth whodunit featuring Wilde as a Holmesian sleuth (after 2011’s Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders). In July 1892, Holmes’s creator runs into his friend Wilde while on holiday...
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Gyles Brandreth. S&S/Touchstone, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5375-8
After two subpar outings (most recently 2012’s Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders), Brandreth returns to form with his outstanding sixth Victorian whodunit, making the most of a difficult but intriguing premise. What if Oscar Wilde, while held...
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Gyles Brandreth. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-64313-021-7
In 1894, the powers-that-be fear that a newspaper is about to revive the rumor that Jack the Ripper was a royal, in Brandreth’s subpar seventh whodunit pairing Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle (after 2013’s Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading...
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Gyles Brandreth. Atria, $26 (290p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2740-4
Self-styled “language obsessive and... punctuation perfectionist” Brandreth (Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper), a mystery novelist, BBC broadcaster, and former member of Parliament, defends the correct use of English in this witty usage
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