Цикл книг ««Тайны Оскара Уайльда»» — 7 книг

Лондон, 1889 год. Оскар Уайльд - знаменитый поэт и драматург, остроумный рассказчик, перед талантом которого преклоняется вся Европа. Однажды Оскар Уайльд обнаруживает в темной и душной комнате, в свете свечи обнаженное тело шестнадцатилетнего юноши Билли Вуда. Уайльд не может забыть об этом жестоком убийстве и вместе со своим другом Артуром Конаном Дойлом принимается за расследование преступления. Оскар Уайльд обладает талантом детектива и вхож в самые разные круги викторианского Лондона: от богемного полусвета до криминальных сообществ, что в дальнейшем сыграет решающую роль в раскрытии серии необъяснимых преступлений.

В классическом детективе с мастерски закрученным сюжетом блестяще воссоздана атмосфера Лондона конца XIX века, а также талантливо и остроумно "воскрешен" сам Оскар Уайльд - одна из величайших личностей викторианской эпохи.

Лондон, 1889 год. Оскар Уайльд - знаменитый поэт и драматург, остроумный рассказчик, перед талантом которого преклоняется вся Европа. Однажды Оскар Уайльд обнаруживает в темной и…

Знаменитый английский писатель Оскар Уайльд по праву считался умнейшим человеком своего времени, но и он не смог предусмотреть, каким кошмаром обернется придуманная им игра: люди, которых участники этой забавы в шутку назначили "жертвами", стали умирать, причем убийца явно был из числа игроков. Кто же он? За расследование взялся сам Уайльд и его ближайшие друзья, знаменитый сэр Артур Конан Дойл, уже успевший создать своего Шерлока Холмса, и будущий автор "Дракулы" Брэм Стокер...

Читателя ждут головокружительный сюжет, яркие образы главных героев, живое описание быта и нравов викторианской Англии - и конечно же разгадка тайны на последних страницах.

Знаменитый английский писатель Оскар Уайльд по праву считался умнейшим человеком своего времени, но и он не смог предусмотреть, каким кошмаром обернется придуманная им игра: люди,…

Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by French impresario Edmond La Grange. As Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, he suspects that all is not as it seems. What begins with a curious death at sea soon escalates to a series of increasingly macabre tragedies once the troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet. A strange air of indifference surrounds these seemingly random events, inciting Oscar to dig deeper, aided by his friends Robert Sherard and the divine Sarah Bernhardt. What he discovers is a horrifying secret -- one that may bring him closer to his own last chapter than anyone could have imagined.

As intelligent as it is beguiling, this third installment in the richly historical mystery series is sure to captivate and entertain.

Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly…

This, the fourth of Gyles Brandeth's acclaimed murder mysteries, opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London's haut monde is there, including a young actor Rex LaSalle who, disarmingly, claims to be a vampire.

What begins as a diverting evening ends in tragedy. The Duchess is found murdered in an anteroom, two tiny puncture marks in her neck. Desperate to avoid a public scandal, the Prince of Wales asks Oscar and his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to investigate the crime. What they discover threatens to destroy the royal family - and the reputation of Oscar Wilde.

This, the fourth of Gyles Brandeth's acclaimed murder mysteries, opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London's…

Oscar Wilde makes a triumphant return in the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed historical mystery series, featuring Wilde as the detective aided by his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer - a severed finger, a lock of hair and finally an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot.

The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Eternal City, the Vatican itself. Pope Pius IX has just died. These are uncertain times. To uncover the mystery and why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned in this way, Oscar and Conan Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church - seven men who have a very great deal to lose.

Oscar Wilde makes a triumphant return in the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed historical mystery series, featuring Wilde as the detective aided by his friend Sir Arthur…

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.

It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, 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. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, Oscar's 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?

In this, the latest novel in his acclaimed Oscar Wilde murder mystery series, Gyles Brandreth takes us deep into the dark heart of Wilde's cruel incarceration.

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…

London. 1894.
'I am not a detective, chief constable.'
'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.'
So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde, in a Chelsea drawing room in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle. The business they are gathered to discuss is none other than the case of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious murderer in England.
And thus the three men set out to solve one of the world's most famous mysteries - the ultimate truth about the identity of Jack the Ripper.
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, this is a revelatory and gripping detective story, combining the intrigue of a classic murder mystery with a witty and compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.

London. 1894.
'I am not a detective, chief constable.'
'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.'
So says…