"August, 1889. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, wit and raconteur, chances on the mutilated corpse of a sixteen-year-old boy in a candle-lit room in one of the back streets of Westminster. In fin-de-siecle London and Paris, with the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilde sets out to unravel the mystery of the murder of Billy Wood...and of the bizarre deaths that follow in its wake."