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Set in the late 1800s, this whodunit features the charming, witty and audacious Oscar Wilde as the detective with Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherard as his companions. It’s the second in the Oscar Wilde series and stems from Wilde’s convening of the Socrates Club - a group of 13 men who dine together regularly. To liven up the dinner party on a Sunday evening in May 1892, Wilde introduces the deadly game of “Murder” – each person has to anonymously write the name of someone he would want to m
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I liked this book much better than the first one in the series, Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance. The case is more interesting and I like the way the author is gradually revealing Wilde to us.
Nov 07, 2008
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
