Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol: A Mystery (Oscar Wilde Murder Mystery Series)

In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called pitch-perfect and enthralling currently in development as a BBC television series the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet.

Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol s most celebrated inmate?