[The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 06] • Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol · A Mystery

**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.** It is 1897, France.

Oscar Wilde has fled the country 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 a harsh regime: 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?