{"product_id":"murder-as-a-fine-art-paperback-1","title":"Murder as a Fine Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Morrell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir \u003ci\u003eConfessions of an English Opium-Eater\u003c\/i\u003e, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay \u003ci\u003eOn Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMurder as a Fine Art\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Morrell\u003c\/b\u003e is an Edgar and Anthony Award finalist, a Nero and Macavity winner, and recipient of the prestigious career-achievement ThrillerMaster award from the International Thriller Writers. He has written twenty-nine works of fiction, which have been translated into thirty languages. He is also a former literature professor at the University of Iowa and received his PhD from Pennsylvania State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50982367068299,"sku":"9780316216784","price":33.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/cifXQmrdtI9780316216784.webp?v=1793292864","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/murder-as-a-fine-art-paperback-1","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}