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*Grab a book, any book.*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you. *Post it. *Add your (url) post in Linky at Freda's Voice.
Publication date: May 14, 2013; Touchstone
Genre: historical mystery
"I'm a friend of the man who invented Sherlock Holmes," I said with some dignity. "Have you heard of Sherlock Holmes?"(p. 57)In this next excerpt, an imprisoned Oscar talks with the prison surgeon, Dr. Maurice, and we learn a little about Oscar Wilde's friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer.
"... And you, I've been led to believe, are Conan Doyle's model for Holmes's older brother - the brilliant but indolent Mycroft Holmes." (ch. 6)Book description: In this new installment in the engaging mystery series—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet.
It is 1897, France. Oscar Wilde has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the Governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate? (goodreads)
This is the fifth in the Oscar Wilde mysteries.
Thanks to Touchstone for a review copy of this book.
Very interesting to base a mystery on Oscar Wilde as a detective. I wonder what Brandreth's inspiration for this was. This does sound like a fun books even though the prison stuff sounds harrowing.
ReplyDeleteI am reminded that I really need to get around to reading Wilde himself.
This is a fun mystery series, Brian. And I do need to get to reading some of Wilde too.
ReplyDeleteSounds really good, Harvee...I need to read it sometime.
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Sounds like a fun and different read.
ReplyDeleteI'm officially interested in this book.
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This would be fun! I've read some Wilde, but it's been many years!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an interesting read.
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Sounds interesting what they are doing to Oscar Wilde's character in this series.
ReplyDeleteI haven't come across this series before - sounds like fun!
ReplyDeleteOscar Wilde = detective sounds a little weird to me. But if you liked it, hey, it's all good! :)
ReplyDeleteI've not heard of this book or series, but it is intriguing. Wilde and Doyle both interest me. I may have to check this out. Thanks for the quote.
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