Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile

I'm quite enjoying this quirky series of Victorian sleuthing. Once again Gyles Brandreth manages to seamlessly blend fiction with real life events and historical figures. It is clear that a lot of painstaking research has gone into these books, and I love that I am learning a little piece of history as the story unfolds.

The Dead Man's Smile takes us back to the early 1880's, and finds Oscar Wilde touring America. He then travels to Paris in 1883, where he meets Robert Sherard for the first time. There the two are witnesses to several tragedies. Were they accidents, or was something more sinister at play? Well, you'll just have to read it to find out.

If you like historical crime fiction, this might be the series for you.