The Murders at Reading Gaol

Name: The Murders at Reading Gaol
Rating: 4.5 (407 reviews)

by Gyles Brandreth Book 6 in the Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series.

First published 2012

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Reading, 1897. Oscar Wilde is serving his prison sentence under a regime designed to isolate and break its inmates. When a warden and the prison chaplain are murdered, the circumstances seem impossible because the prisoners were confined to their cells when each killing occurred.

With little freedom of movement and no reliable ally, Wilde reconstructs events from fragments of conversation, prison routines and the behaviour of guards and inmates. His search for a concealed serial killer becomes both a locked-room investigation and a struggle to survive an institution in which nearly everyone has reason to hide the truth.