Plongez dans le monde opulent de l'Angleterre victorienne, où les salons intellectuels rencontrent des secrets sombres. Suivez le brillant et non conventionnel Oscar Wilde alors qu'il applique son esprit et son observation aiguë pour résoudre des mystères de meurtre complexes à travers l'Angleterre, l'Écosse et la France. Cette série offre un mélange captivant d'intrigue historique, de déduction astucieuse et de commentaire social pétillant.
En cette fin de siècle trépidante, Oscar Wilde, dandy éclairé, virevolte de mondanités en rendez-vous discrets, lorsqu'un drame vient bouleverser sa vie. Tandis qu'il s'apprête à écrire Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, il découvre dans un meublé le corps d'un jeune garçon de sa connaissance. Tout semble indiquer un meurtre rituel. Et en ami fidèle, Oscar Wilde s'est juré de ne pas trouver le repos tant que justice n'aura pas été faite pour Billy Wood.
Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with Sarah Bernhardt and to collaborate with France's most celebrated actor-manager, Edmond La Grange. Oscar discovers dark secrets lying at the heart of the La Grange company, and is confronted by murders both foul and bizarre.
In OSCAR WILDE AND THE NEST OF VIPERS, the fourth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate a scandalous crime at the very heart of Victorian high society. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith
In OSCAR WILDE AND THE VATICAN MURDERS, the fifth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the two must penetrate the highest echelons of the Catholic Church to solve a macabre series of killings. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith
In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly clever serial killer. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith
Case Closed is Arthur Conan Doyle's account of the events of 1894, the year of the return of Jack the Ripper. Based on Oscar Wilde's real-life friendship with Conan Doyle and the extraordinary but little-known fact that in 1894 the detective in charge of the Jack the Ripper investigations was Oscar Wilde's neighbour in Tite Street, Chelsea.