Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders
By: Gyles Brandreth
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781405618960; 9781405618977
Subjects: Social conditions; Fiction
Description: When Oscar Wilde chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late-Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde, to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings.
Notes: Originally published: London: John Murray, 2007.