Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
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Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder by Gyles Brandreth
I see murder in this unhappy hand... When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand, she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of murder in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. The fourteen victims begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag. With growing horror Wilde and his confidants, Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realize that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time, Wilde will need all his powers of deduction and knowledge of human behavior before he himself--the thirteenth name on the list--becomes the killer's next victim.
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, performer, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and probably best known these days as a reporter on BBC1's The One Show and having been a regular on Radio 4's Just a Minute. On TV he has featured on Have I Got News For You, QI, Room 101, Countdown, and This is Your Life. As a journalist he writes for the Telegraph and Daily Mail and is a columnist for The Oldie. The founder of the National Scrabble Championships, his books about words and language include four best-sellers, The Joy of Lex, Word Play, Have You Eaten Grandma? and Dancing by the Light of the Moon. His novels include seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective and he has published two volumes of diaries and two acclaimed royal biographies.In 2020 he published The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416534846 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416534849 |
| Title | Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder |
| Author | Gyles Brandreth |
| Series | Oscar Wilde Murder Mystery |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Touchstone Books |
| Year published | 2008-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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