Set in Victorian-era London, Canadian-American author David Morrell’s historical novel Murder as a Fine Art () follows the fictionalized attempts of the real-life author Thomas De Quincey to catch a serial killer. The Washington Post calls Murder as a Fine Art "a highly entertaining thriller." The year is . · Murder As a Fine Art is the first in my three-book Victorian mystery/thriller series. Each novel has a backdrop of a real s crime that paralyzed England: the Radcliffe Highway mass murders, the numerous attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria, and the first murder on an English train (on s English trains, no one could hear you scream).Pages: · 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 Brand: Little, Brown and Company.
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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. MURDER AS A FINE ART. by David Morrell ‧RELEASE DATE: . In , a series of senseless killings in London so closely echo the literary work of Thomas De Quincey that he becomes the principal suspect. Writer Thomas De Quincey, best known for Confessions of an English Opium Eater, his frank memoir of his experiences with opium, also published a satirical essay entitled "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," in which he describes in. 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.
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