Oscar Wilde and the Vatican murders
by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
"In 1892 an exhausted Arthur Conan Doyle, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg with a portmanteau of fan mail. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the letters - including an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Eternal City, the Vatican itself - and to a case that involves miracles as well as murder. To discover why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned to the Holy See in this sinister fashion, Oscar and Conana Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church and uncover the deadly secrets of the seven men closest to the Pope."--Back cover.
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Oscar Wilde and the Vatican murders
2012, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone
in English
1439153744 9781439153741
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Originally published: London: John Murray, 2011.
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In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer - a severed finger, a lock of hair and finally an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, the Vatican itself. Pope Pius IX has just died. To uncover the mystery and why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned in this way, Oscar and Conan Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church - seven men who have a very great deal to lose.
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