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Lädt ... Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery (Oscar Wilde Mysteries) (2008. Auflage)von Gyles Brandreth
Werk-InformationenOscar Wilde and the Ring of Death von Gyles Brandreth
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I enjoyed this book. It was easy reading during lunch time at work. I don't often read mystery series books but when I saw that Oscar Wilde was the main character, I was intrigued. This kept my attention and this series is making me want to learn more about Wilde and his works. I intend to read the others at some point. "Life is too important to be taken seriously!" ( ) I liked this book. It takes place in 1892. It is narrated by Robert Sherard who was a friend of Wilde's and who apparently wrote a biography of Wilde. Some of Wilde's friends includes Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker. Another character, Charles Brookfield is not really a friend of Wilde - more of a competitor. He was the first actor to play Sherlock Holmes on stage. This is the second book in the series. Wilde has a party and wants to play a game of murder in which is friends all write down the name of someone they would like to murder. The names are drawn out one by one and the group to figure out who wrote down the name. The problem starts when the first few on the list die and Wilde starts investigating. Another in the series of Oscar Wilde as a detective. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is again in it and also Bram Stoker, Walter Sickert and the Marquess of Queensbury. During a dinner of the Socrates Club, Wilde proposes a game of Murder with the question of "Who would you kill?" Each attendee writes their choice on a slip of paper which are then drawn randomly and read. All is done in fun and games until the names on that list start turning up dead in the sequence they appear on the list. Who is the murderer? Are the deaths related or are they chance events? Wilde and the amateur detectives find themselves searching in the realms of politics, theatre and hidden secrets while trying to solve the murders before the next one happens. Relationships and personal histories are revealed in their search for the solutions. Once again I enjoyed the feeling of being in Victorian London. A not so proper period. The descriptions of the characters and their actions; the scenes of the events all contribute to the enjoyment. There is action and also puzzlement as the pieces of the puzzle start to fit in an order that will give the whole picture. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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In OSCAR WILDE AND THE RING OF DEATH, the second in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, a parlour game of 'Murder' has lethal consequences... 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith 'I see murder in this unhappy hand...' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm 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. For 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 confidantes Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realise 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 behaviour before he himself - the thirteenth name on the list - becomes the killer's next victim. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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