Murder as a fine art
By: David Morrell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780316216791
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Social life and customs; Serial murderers; Fiction
Description: "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...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." --inside front cover.