Sign-In
Cart
The Man Behind the Canvas: A tale Lost in History
Hardcover
Series: The Trials of Dorian Gray, Book 1
Publisher Price: $32.95
Publisher: Tennco Creatives
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
As I turned the pages of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for what must have been the hundredth time, I found myself seized by a need to chase the story beyond its final line. What happened after the blade struck and the portrait revealed its terrible truth? The official tale ends there, but imagination demands an epilogue. In this version, Dorian's sudden vanishing and the grisly discovery of an aged, unrecognizable corpse in the old schoolroom threw London's Metropolitan Police into chaos. A coroner's inquest was convened within days. Footmen, maids, valets, every servant who had passed through 9 Grosvenor Square was dragged before the magistrate.The glittering drawing rooms of Mayfair buzzed with rumor, and half
the peerage found themselves answering quiet, pointed questions over tea. Dorian's study became a crime scene. Constables and barristers combed it from cornice to cellar, prying at wainscoting, testing the swing of every bookshelf, breaking the locks on cabinets that had not been opened in years. And they found things. Hundreds of manuscripts, yellowed and ink-stained, sealed in wax or bound with black ribbon. Some were tucked beneath warped floorboards that groaned under their weight. Others had been plastered into the walls themselves,
entombed like confessions too dangerous to breathe aloud. These manuscripts fragmented diaries, unsent letters, annotated plays, coded journals are the secret autobiography of Dorian Gray, written in the margins of his supposed death. What follows is a catalog of what the police unearthed:
Also from
Tennessee, Herve
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback