Publisher Description
London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright, and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling 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 to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in the investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance is a classic murder mystery in the tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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“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 of Jane and the Barque of Frailty
About Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth
is a prominent BBC broadcaster, theater producer, novelist, and biographer. He
has written bestselling biographies of Britain’s royal family and an acclaimed
diary of his years as a Member of Parliament. He lives in London with his
family.
About Bill Wallis
Bill Wallis has performed in over two hundred radio series
and plays, while among his numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company
are The Alchemist, The Master Builder, and Twelfth Night. He is also a prolific
film and television actor, having made numerous appearances in such productions
as Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Midsomer Murders, Bad Girls, Doctors, Poirot, and as Dr. Nick MacKenzie in Dangerfield.