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Sherlock Holmes, in the absence of Dr. Watson presses Oscar Wilde into his service to help protect candidate Grover Cleveland from a sexual scandal in the 1884 U.S. presidential election, but everything goes wrong. Oscar Wilde proves to be Holmes intellectual equal; Professor Moriarty is the villain; and Lillie Langtry is the woman at the bottom of it all. Can Sherlock Holmes redeem himself and solve the story's mystery perhaps even the mystery of himself?
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Milo Yelesiyevich is the publisher of The Serbian Classics Press.
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In Wilde about Holmes, Yelesiyevich has managed to combine the archness of the aesthete with the sober ratiocination of the master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a boisterous tale of murder, mystery, and mayhem in Old New York. Surrounded by the swirl of the Guilded Age, Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes join forces to defeat archnemesis Professor Moriarty in his attempt to derail Grover Cleveland's presidential campaign. As readers we must navigate the rocky shoals of blackmail, skullduggery, illicit love affairs, political corruption, bad disguises, overeating, and wayward thespians. Narrating alternately in the voices of Wilde and Holmes, Yelesiyevich seamlessly interweaves the attitudes and mannerisms of two of the nineteenth century's most characteristic and best-known authors. Utterly convincing and supremely ambitious, this sly, clever, witty novel manages to simultaneously delight and mystify readers. For all its surface sparkle and flair, this is a suprisingly cerebral novel that is also an homage to its characters and the world that brought them forth. It would be hard to overpraise a book that so richly brings together psychological acuity with the forward momentum of a crime novel.
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- PublisherComic Masque
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0970919824
- ISBN 13 9780970919823
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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Wilde About Holmes
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ISBN 10: 0970919824
ISBN 13: 9780970919823
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. 363pp. Black wrappers with orange, lavender and light gray/white lettering on front cover, with two small drawings of Wilde and Holmes just above center of front cover. Signed and gift-inscribed to previous owner, literary critic and contributor to the New Yorker, on half-title page. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 004016
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