The Ring of Death

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.

“€~Wilde as detective is thoroughly convincing. . . . The period, and the two or three worlds in which Wilde himself moved, are richly evoked . . .Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murdersis an excellent detective story. I'm keenly looking forward to the rest of the series'”

Part biography and part murder mystery with a wonderful cast of historical characters - Oswentry & Border Countries Advertiser, Teresa Eccleston

Hugely enjoyable - Daily Mail

Rather fun ...Brandreth unashamedly wheels out a cast of historical characters to die for - Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times

A neat take on the big hitters in the book world just over a century ago ... Gyles is a joy to the nation - Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

A clever concept spiced with great Wilde epigrams - Daily Telegraph

He has won great acclaim for his series of Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries ... as witty and entertaining as his hero, Gyles is renowned for his charisma and charm - Daily Mail

The last novel I read was The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries ... it was very good - Nicholas Parsons, Daily Telegraph

A carnival of cliffhangers and fiendish twists-and-turns - Sunday Express

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster and former MP. He currently writes for the Daily Telegraph and Mail on Sunday.

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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