Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders: A Mystery

by Gyles Brandreth

Book Overview

Oscar Wilde makes a triumphant return to sleuthing in the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed historical murder mystery series based on real events, featuring Wilde as the detective aided by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, and written by a premier British biographer.

Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders opens in 1892, as an exhausted Arthur Conan Doyle retires to a spa in Germany with a suitcase full of fan mail. But his rest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439153736
• ISBN13: 9781439153734
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A Very Nice Mystery and an Amazing Novel

Often when someone tells me a book is well-written, I want to run. I don't like the prose (or maybe it's the poetry) getting in the way of the story. To me, a well-written novel is one where the prose disappears and the characters stand there before you. In the case of Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders, I found myself reading aloud--proclaiming the words in much the same way that the fictional Oscar tends to do. The mystery is interesting, and watching Wilde as the true model for Sherlock Holmes is actually funny, but the detective's process isn't particularly unusual. As a novel, this book made me want to perform the pages, and that, I really have to say, is novel.