Murder as a Fine Art

By David Morrell

Book Overview

A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name. Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts . Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives. In Murder as a Fine Art , David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316216798
• ISBN13: 9780316216791
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"