Baker Street Irregulars discussion

I just finished a biography on Oscar Wilde called The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde and it was AMAZING. As you can probably tell by the title it was heavy on the gay but for me that was perfect. Anyway, now the floodgates on Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde pastiches are wide open.

I've read Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (really awful) and Oscar Wilde and the Death of No Importance (really good). The Oscar Wilde mysteries written by Gyles Brandreth (one of which is Oscar Wilde and the Death of No Importance) is a different kind of pastiche in that it has not Sherlock Holmes but Arthur Conan Doyle as a character.

I just checked this out because I recently read a novel that used Wilde as a peripheral character and then found out that Wilde is "protected" by an administrator and that you need to get permission to use his name or likeness.
I also got The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde - quite a different spin than Ellman's biography.

I also have Ellman's biography on him but I haven't read it yet. I do hear it is very different from The Secret Life, but I suppose The Secret Life is pretty different on the whole from most biographies.

I wonder who "protects" Wilde? His grandson or someone along those lines?

I recently picked up The Fireworks of Oscar Wilde and it is amazing. Just the funniest bits smooshed together in a book.

Bringing this up because I just came across a book called "Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction," published about 12 years ago. Apparently, it documents fictional works where a character clearly based on Wilde appears. One of the authors mentioned is Conan Doyle - trying to think of where a Wilde-inspired character appears in the Canon, the closest I could come was Langdale Pike, who is off-stage. Possibly Robert St. Simon.

J. wrote: "trying to think of where a Wilde-inspired character appears in the Canon, the closest I could come was Langdale Pike, who is off-stage. Possibly Robert St. Simon. "

Mycroft?

could be ..are you aware wilde and doyle met at an important publishers meeting?

I put up a review of a recent Sherlock Holmes novel called "The Spider's Web." Holmes and Watson get involved in an investigation and the characters involved are all taken from some of Oscar Wilde's plays. I wasn't that impressed with the mystery aspect, but the author did a very good job of getting Conan Doyle's writing style down.

I quite forgot that Oscar Wilde popped up in "The West End Horror," by Nicholas Meyer, but I can't recall whether he was just mentioned or appeared as a character. I remember that GB Shaw was a character in the book.

i have read it and i think he was a character in it!

I found out that there is a book called "The Case of the Green Carnation" that has Wilde bringing a case to Holmes. I think it's just available on Kindle.

ok thank you