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"With help from his friends Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and poet Robert Sherard, young Oscar Wilde investigates a "murder" game which turns deadly when a fantasy victim is actually killed."
"With help from his friends Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and poet Robert Sherard, young Oscar Wilde investigates a "murder" game which turns deadly when a fantasy victim is actually killed."@en
"At a May 1892 meeting of the Socrates Club, a group founded by Wilde and including such luminaries as Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker, the members play murder, a game that involves writing the name of a victim on a piece of paper and trying to guess who chose whom and why. The amusement sours in the face of certain selections in poor taste, like Mrs. Oscar Wilde. Real murders follow, starting with the horrific death by fire of the ex-fianc of one of the participants, a disgraced minister."@en
""It's 1892, and Wilde is the toast of London, riding high on the success of his play Lady Windemere's Fan. While celebrating with friends at a dinner party he conjures up a game called "murder" that poses the question: Who would you most like to kill? Wilde and friends -- including Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and poet Robert Sherard (the novel's narrator) -- write the names of their "victims" on pieces of paper and choose them one by one. After leaving the party, Wilde scoffs at the suggestion that he may have instigated a very dangerous game indeed. The very next day, the game takes an all-too- sinister turn when the first "victim" turns up dead. Soon Wilde and his band of amateur detectives must travel through the realms of politics, theatre, and even boxing to unearth whose misguided passions have the potential to become deadly poisons -- not only for the perpetrator of the seemingly perfect crimes but also for the trio of detectives investigating them. Richly atmospheric and as entertaining as Wilde himself, this book is the second in a series destined to delight mystery readers and fans of historical fiction alike"--Front flap."@en
"En ce début de mai 1892, alors qu'il connaît un véritable triomphe avec sa pièce L'éventail de lady Windermere, Oscar Wilde se trouve impliqué dans une affaire mystérieuse. Lors du traditionnel dîner du club Socrate, qu'il a fondé avec des amis, Wilde organise ce qu'il appelle le jeu de la mort : chacun nomme une personne qu'il souhaiterait assassiner..."
"When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag ... With growing horror, Wilde and his confidantes Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realise that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time, Wilde will need all his powers of deduction and knowledge of human behaviour before he himself - the thirteenth name on the list - becomes the killer's next victim."

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"Electronic books"@en
"Detective and mystery stories"@en
"Detective and mystery stories"
"History"
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"
"Large type books"
"Mystery fiction"@en
"Mystery fiction"

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"Oscar Wilde and a game called murder"
"Oscar Wilde and a game called murder"@en
"Oscar Wilde y el club de la muerte"@es
"Oscar Wilde y el club de la muerte"
"Oscar Wilde and a game called murder : [a mystery]"@en
"Oscar Wilde et le jeu de la mort"
"Oscar Wilde and the ring of death"
"Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death"@en

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