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One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's... read more

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On an afternoon ablaze with sunshine, at the very end of August 1889, a man in his mid-thirties - tall, a little overweight, and certainly overdressed - was admitted to a small terraced house in Cowley Street, in the City of Westminster, close by the Houses of Parliament.

Series

This is book 1 in the Oscar Wilde Mysteries series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (Author)
 

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