The “pitch-perfect” (Booklist) Oscar Wilde Murder Mystery series continues as the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet.
Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol, where he endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, and no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remained undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?
