Oscar Wilde and the Vatican murders
By: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781471324741; 9781471324758
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: "In 1892 an exhausted Arthur Conan Doyle, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg with a portmanteau of fan mail. 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 letters - including 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 - and to a case that involves miracles as well as murder. To discover why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned to the Holy See in this sinister fashion, Oscar and Conana Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church and uncover the deadly secrets of the seven men closest to the Pope."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: London: John Murray, 2011.