5 five comic mystery stories by Oscar Wilde- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of five comic mystery stories by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1891. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) became one of the most popular playwrights in Lon-don in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. This Collection includes 5 tales: The Canterville Ghost Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Sphinx without a Secret The Model Millionaire The Portrait of Mr. W. H.