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| | Voice Literary Supplement: Wilde Thing |
 | | Oscar Wilde wrote, "is rarely pure and never simple." That aphorism, from The Importance of Being Earnest, could serve as epigraph for Clare Elfman's taut novel The Case of the Pederast's Wife, which probes the truth about Wilde's marriage. |
 | | As he flatfoots through the mists of the Wildes' relationship, Frame models himself on one particular sleuth: Sherlock Holmes, the piercingly acute detective Arthur Conan Doyle had unleashed on literature just a few years before Wilde's trial. |
 | | But aficionados know that the joy of reading a mystery lies in surrendering to the narrative, suspending all that niggling disbelief—swallowing wholesale, for example, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and her unlikely ability to reel murderers in from the village of St. Mary Mead. |
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