Gyles Brandreth

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The Vatican Murders

An utterly addictive historical cosy murder mystery

Beschreibung

In OSCAR WILDE AND THE VATICAN MURDERS, the fifth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the two must penetrate the highest echelons of the Catholic Church to solve a macabre series of killings. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith

Autor

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, performer, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and probably best known these days as a reporter on BBC1's The One Show and having been a regular on Radio 4's Just a Minute. On TV he has featured on Have I Got News For You, QI, Room 101, Countdown, and This is Your Life. As a journalist he writes for the Telegraph and Daily Mail and is a columnist for The Oldie. The founder of the National Scrabble Championships, his books about words and language include four best-sellers, The Joy of Lex, Word Play, Have You Eaten Grandma? and Dancing by the Light of the Moon. His novels include seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective and he has published two volumes of diaries and two acclaimed royal biographies. In 2020 he published The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes.

Produktdetails

• The Victorian Murder Mystery Series
• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Hodder Paperbacks
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1020621
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781848542525
• ISBN-10: 1848542526
• Artikelnr.: 34140502

Rezensionen

Gyles Brandreth succeeds magnificently. A plot that is intriguing throughout. A skilfully crafted story that goes all the way Daily Mail