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The Candlelight Murders

by Gyles Brandreth

Book 1 in the Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series.

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London, 1889. Oscar Wilde discovers the body of a young acquaintance in a candlelit attic, his throat cut and the room arranged with disturbing care. Unwilling to leave the death to a routine investigation, Wilde seeks the help of Arthur Conan Doyle and begins tracing the victim’s movements through fashionable drawing rooms and less respectable corners of the city.

Wilde and Doyle find that solving an actual murder is more dangerous than constructing one on the page. As concealed relationships and private scandals emerge, they must decide which witnesses are lying and identify the purpose behind the ritual-looking crime before the killer can silence anyone else.