| Author: | David Morrell | ISBN: | 9780316216777 |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company | Publication: | May 7, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Mulholland Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Morrell |
| ISBN: | 9780316216777 |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
| Publication: | May 7, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Mulholland Books |
| Language: | English |
A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name.
Winner of the Macavity and Nero Awards
Winner of the ALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery
Winner of the AudioFile EarPhones Award for Best Audiobook
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.
A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name.
Winner of the Macavity and Nero Awards
Winner of the ALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery
Winner of the AudioFile EarPhones Award for Best Audiobook
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.
