I was under the impression that Brandreth's Wilde series had necessarily come to its end with the last, rather dark outing centred around his imprisonment in Reading Gaol and brief sojourn in Paris before his death. Imagine how pleased I was, then, to discover this new volume, however out of chronol...
The sixth of the Brandreth Oscar Wilde murder mysteries, this is in many ways my favourite. That is, I suppose, because for me these books have been more about Brandreth's re-creation of Wilde's voice and milieu, and the murder mystery in each has been secondary. So this novel, which takes place dur...
Brandreth's Oscar Wilde mysteries are amongst the few series I will buy new - and in trade paperback format. I'm pleased to say this one lived up to expectations, and there were lots of lovely Wilde and Conan Doyle in-jokes (Irene Sadler? :) ) The story is chiefly set in Rome, and there are erring c...
This book could have been called The Sherlockian Miscellany, as it has more to say about the study of Holmes and those who study him than it does about the Great Detective himself.There are chapters on Holmes's appearances in film, TV, comics, graphic novels, on the stage, in the pastiches and parod...
I was predisposed to like this little biography, because I like the subject and I like the author. And I didn't have excessive expectations, because I had already read a much more extensive biography, by Sheridan Morley, as well as the letters. So what I was hoping for here was some new anecdotes, s...
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