Murder as a Fine Art (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316216784)

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.

Author: David Morrell
ISBN-10: 031621678X
ISBN-13: 9780316216784
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2014
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2016 pg. 73