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Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publishers Weekly

| July 07, 2008 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

* Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder

Gyles Brandreth. Touchstone, $14 paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3484-6

In British author Brandreth's impressive second Oscar Wilde mystery (after 2007's Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance), the aesthete and playwright proves himself a brilliant and insightful sleuth. At a May 1892 meeting of the Socrates Club, a group founded by Wilde and including such luminaries as Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker, the members play "murder," a game that involves writing the name of a "victim" on a …

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