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Знаменитый английский писатель Оскар Уайльд по праву считался умнейшим человеком своего времени, но и он не смог предусмотреть, каким кошмаром обернется придуманная им игра: люди, которых участники этой забавы в шутку назначили "жертвами", стали умирать, причем убийца явно был из числа игроков. Кто же он? За расследование взялся сам Уайльд и его ближайшие друзья, знаменитый сэр Артур Конан Дойл, уже успевший создать своего Шерлока Холмса, и будущий автор "Дракулы" Брэм Стокер... Читателя ждут головокружительный сюжет, яркие образы главных героев, живое описание быта и нравов викторианской Англии - и конечно же разгадка тайны на последних…

'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' 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…

The second witty installment in an astonishingly authentic historical mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner in crime, Arthur Conan Doyle. 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…