In this story, Wilde takes his cues from Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and begins to investigate the mysterious death of Billy Woods. Wilde happens upon the dead boy in a rented room, surrounded by incense and candles. Oscar panics and flees from the house. The next day, he implores his friends to come back with him to the crime scene and finds it completely clean and empty. Sherard and Conan Doyle encourage Oscar to go to Scotland Yard with the issue. Without a crime scene, there is little the police can do. Wilde decides to take the investigation into his own hands and so begins an interesting sequence of events.
I appreciated the literary references, and thought the authors were portrayed well. There are references to the author’s real works, and their personalities are pretty spot on. If you are a die hard Oscar Wilde or Arthur Conan Doyle fan, you may not appreciate some of the liberties taken with them in this book. Overall, Gyles Brandreth did an excellent job of making real people and places work with his very interesting mystery plot. Check status at GPL.
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