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May 7, 2013 · Murder as a Fine Art takes place in 1854 London, England and begins with the brutal, savage deaths of five individuals inside a clothing shop. It isn't long before the public becomes aware that the slayings are a direct imitation of similar murders that took place during 1811, or are they?
Jun 10, 2014 · 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.
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“Like Michelangelo in painting, a great murderer carries his art to a colossal sublimity.”--Thomas De Quincey Murder As a Fine Art is the first in my three-book Victorian mystery/thriller series. Each novel has a backdrop of a real 1800s crime that paralyzed England: the Radcliffe Highway mass murders, the numerous attempts to assassinate ...
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. Membership Advantages. Media Reviews. Reader Reviews.
Murder as a Fine Art. Written by David Morrell Review by Kristen Hannum. It’s 1854 in London, and a murderer has just carefully recreated the most heinous mass murder of that century, a brutal, senseless slaughter in 1811. This current, 1854 assassin, however, goes further, killing even more people.
May 7, 2013 · Murder As A Fine Art. David Morrell. 3.91. 8,592 ratings1,156 reviews. Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller.
"MURDER AS A FINE ART is fine art itself. With attention to period detail and breakneck pacing, it compels one to read ever onward." Now, 43 years later, is a grisly scene with five bodies. Naturally, the London police are baffled, most of them too young to remember the Ratcliffe Highway murders.
