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. ...
With the publication of his novel, First Blood, author David Morrell was hailed as the father of the modern thriller novel. In his latest work, Murder as a Fine Art, Morrell reinvents the 19th century suspense novel. Using an omniscient narrative rarely seen today, Morrell immerses the reader in the...
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 o...
I'm doing Murder as a Fine Art for my mystery book club at the library, and it was suggested to me personally from a co-worker awhile back. I took the suggestion for two reasons. One is that David Morrell is the author, who is famously known for having written First Blood, which is the basis for the...
In some aspects, it appears as if Mr. Morrell is trying too hard to appeal to modern readers. Emily De Quincey is just one example. Her demeanor is one that befits a 21st-century woman rather than a 19th-century one. Her position as her father’s personal and professional assistant exposes her to a w...
WHAT A GREAT READ THIS WAS! I actually had to double check that this was a fictional story with how well it was written. The author had sections of it that appeared to be non-fictional writing. It was great. I was kept on the edge of my seat and I LOVE when a book can do that to me. I found myself h...
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