Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery (Oscar Wilde Mysteries)
"I always wanted to meet Oscar Wilde and now I feel that I have done, and shared a terrific, bizarre and frightening adventure with him. I recommend the experience." -- Anne Perry"Brandreth's accomplishment is evident in the force of Wilde's personality, which fairly leaps off the page...readers will delight in the effortless characterization and deft portrait of late-Victorian England." -- Stephanie Barron, author ofJane and the Barque of Frailty"A witty fin de siècle entertainment, and the rattlingly elegant dialogue is peppered with witticisms uttered by Wilde well before he ever thought of putting them into his plays." --Sunday Times(London)"Genius...Wilde has sprung back to life in this thrilling and richly atmospheric new novel.... Magnificent...an unforgettable shocker about sex and vice, love and death." --Sunday Express"This excellent novel...I'd be staggered if, by the end of 2007, you'd read many better whodunnits. Brandreth demonstrates supremely measured skill as a storyteller." --Nottingham Evening Post"Wilde as detective is thoroughly convincing.... The period, and the two or three worlds in which Wilde himself moved, are richly evoked...an excellent detective story. I'm keenly looking forward to the rest of the series." --The District Messenger, journal of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London"Brandreth...spins a tale of human frailty and self-preservation...a promising start." --Library Journal"Oscar Wilde makes a stylish sleuth in this clever series debut." --Publishers Weekly"A first-class stunner...[A] wow of a history-mystery...fascinating..." --Booklist(Starred review)