Murder as a Fine Art
by:
David Morrell (author)
A new direction for beloved novelist David Morrell: a historical thriller with literary roots. Thomas De Quincey, best known for his sensational memoir Confessions of an Opium Eater, is the prime suspect in a series of horrific murders that paralyze London. The killer seems to be imitating De...
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A new direction for beloved novelist David Morrell: a historical thriller with literary roots.
Thomas De Quincey, best known for his sensational memoir Confessions of an Opium Eater, is the prime suspect in a series of horrific murders that paralyze London.
The killer seems to be imitating De Quincey’s true-crime essay ”On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.” Desperate to prevent more atrocities but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his brilliant daughter, Emily, as well as two determined Scotland Yard detectives.
MURDER AS A FINE ART recreates gaslit London as a battleground between a literary luminary and a master killer whose secrets are deeply entwined with De Quincey’s own, in a riveting thriller along the lines of Dan Simmons’ Drood, Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club, and Caleb Carr’s The Alienist.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780316216791
Publish date: 7 maja 2013
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Murder as a Fine Art, set in 1854 London, features at its center Thomas De Quincey, "The Opium-Eater," the author of the first published drug memoir in English, Memoirs of an Opium Eater, the friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and now, late in life, a mass murder suspect. The other characters foc...
Initially, I had quite a bit of trouble getting past the first few chapters of the book, the parts that described a mass murder in gruesome and bloody detail. However, I knew from the synopsis that the fictional occurrence was patterned after a historical case in London, which took place in 1811 (al...
I actually read this some time ago. I remember thinking that I liked the ending. I never guessed who real person was that actually committed the murders. I checked the book out again to refresh my memory before I read the next one.
I first heard about the Ratcliffe Highway murders by reading about them in P.D. James’ The Murder Room. I eventually read the book she co-authored about the murders (which is not as good as her fiction), and I picked this up because of the reference to the murders as well as De Quincy. ...
I love the cover of this book! Murder as a Fine Art has been on my "currently reading" shelf for months just so I could admire the cover art. I also love the premise of Thomas De Quincey (the author best known for Confessions of an English Opium Eater) investigating a murder in Victorian London. ...
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