Brandreth, Gyles, 1948-2017
London, 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable'. 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business at hand'. So says police chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde, in a Chelsea drawing room in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle. And thus the three...