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 E
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile
โ Scribed by Gyles Brandreth
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0719569214
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โฆ Synopsis
One of the shining stars of historical crime fiction returns with this eagerly anticipated addition to the series that Booklist hails as pitch-perfect and the Toronto Globe and Mail calls a lot of fun.
In Oscar Wilde and the Dead Mans Smile, the famous playwright and raconteur leaves England for a lecture tour in the United States, where he meets P.T. Barnum, sees Jumbo the Elephant, becomes involved in a saloon shoot out, and entertains Broadways brightest stars. But soon Wilde becomes entangled with the LaGrange acting dynasty, whom he befriends aboard an ocean liner. Things are not what they seem with this family, and Oscars shrewd curiosity may get the better of him as he investigates their hardships. Once the troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet, the tragedies mount. As Oscar digs deeper into these seemingly random events, he will discover a horrifying secretone which may bring him closer to his own last chapter than he could ever imagine. Gyles Brandreth has crafted another enchanting entertainment that is as intelligent as it is beguiling.
**
Library : General
Universes : The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries [03]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780719569210
โฆ Subjects
Mysteries
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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