Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
by Gyles Brandreth is about Wilde’s time spent in prison. It is cold, harsh,
and quite different than the life he was living before being imprisoned. Take a
dive into this story and feel what it was like for Wilde during his time in
prison.
Book
Description
“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?” – Oscar
Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
My Thoughts
Oscar Wilde
and the Murders at Reading Gaol is a novel that is more about Wilde’s life
in prison than a mystery, like the other stories in the series. After living
for pure pleasure out of life, Wilde’s life in prison is quite horrible.
However, he is able to eventually see it as a period in his life that he needed
for his soul to evolve. Seeing Oscar Wilde in this light is quite different
from the guy you normally think of or read about in such stories.
Of course no novel about Oscar Wilde is complete
without some sort of murder mystery, so that is included, too. Fans of the
series and Oscar Wilde will definitely enjoy this novel.
* Thank you
to the publisher of Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol, Touchstone, for
providing me with a copy of this book for review. All opinions expressed are my
own.
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