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Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

By Gyles Brandreth

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'I see murder in this unhappy hand...' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guesContinue

'I see murder in this unhappy hand...' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag...With growing horror, Wilde and his confidantes Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realise that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time, Wilde will need all his powers of deduction and knowledge of human behaviour before he himself -- the thirteenth name on the list -- becomes the killer's next victim.

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  • OSCAR WILDE AND THE RING OF DEATH

    London 1892, the bohemian members of the Socrates club gather for an evening of fine food and scandalous conversation. This is, of course, no ordinary club; it counts the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker amongst its members and is the brai ... (read full critics)

    shotsmag published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

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  • i loved the first book, so into the wildean canon. this is more entertaining, but there's less oscar as we know him in it.

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    Elsastella said on Mar 30, 2009 about the Others edition | 1 feedback

  • Una spirale risalita contro corrente

    Quote page 121
    "Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."

    Gyles Brandreth si conferma, dopo il primo libro della serie ch ... (continue)

    Quote page 121
    "Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."

    Gyles Brandreth si conferma, dopo il primo libro della serie che vede come protagonista Oscar Wilde, nei panni di un Sherlock Holmes molto attento agli abbinamenti sia di parole che di abiti.
    "Oscar Wilde & the Ring of Death" è uscito giusto quets'anno nei paesi anglofoni e per quanto riguarda l'Italia non corrono ancora voci di corridoio. La lettura anche in originale è molto scorrevole e pochi i termini che possono dare qualche grana!
    Narratore della storia come sempre è Robert Sherard. Rispetto al primo, questo libro è più intrigante e come sempre si trovano dei passi molto ben equilibrati (leggete il capitolo "What's in a Name?").
    Aspetto totalmente estraneo al precendente è la "crisi del matrimonio" tra Oscar Wilde e sua moglie Costance (la situazione è vista come irrimediabile, la bellezza in decadenza di lei è per l'estate Oscar fattore di cambiamento)... Difatti fa la sua comparsa (Bosie) Alfred Douglas...
    Da non perdere il triste Post Scritum che ci svela il destino dei partecipanti al gioco istigatore "Murder" e che forse ci fa intendere che un seguito non... seguirà!

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