Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde

New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Fine dj. (c.1988). First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice book, no discernible wear, but a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is flawless]. In 1895 London, "against a backdrop of terrorist dynamitings, a humbled [Sherlock] holmes reluctantly accept the aid of Oscar Wilde to unravel two tangled plots: the blackmail of an eminent Victorian with a name known (then and now) all over the world, and the diabolical design of a demented nobleman to inflict 'Death! Or Worse!' upon Holmes himself." .