Thomas and Emily de Quincey Murder as a Fine Art, Book 1, (Paperback)

from Olivermagnus

Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell5 StarsI thought this was a great historical mystery novel where the author features actual historical figures interacting with fictional characters. Set in 1854 London this book was inspired by the works of author Thomas De Quincey, who is known for a series ...

from druidgirl

This is the fictional story of Thomas De Quincey, his memoir of Confessions of an English Opium Eater. This is a story full of suspense. One of his essays had to do with the Ratcliffe Highway Murders which happened forty years before. But his essay makes him a suspect with Scotland Yard of curren...

from cathyskye

While I was in college, I read Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater. When I recently learned that David Morrell had written a mystery with him as a sleuth, I thought back to De Quincey's Confessions and knew what a marvelous character he could be. To my delight, Morrell has d...

from creighley

A grisly murder has taken place in Victorian London . The primary suspect is author Thomas De Quency, a writer whose latest publication, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, has made him a prime suspect in the crime. De Quency, his liberated daughter Emily, and a pair of Scotland Yard detective...

from arielfl

I loved this fictional crime story that took it's inspiration from the real life Thomas De Quincy and the Ratcliffe Highway Murders. I read the author's notes at the end of the novel and it was really brilliant how he conceived this book. 43 years after the original gruesome Ratcliffe Murders the...