{"product_id":"2940173499660","title":"Murder as a Fine Art","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e  GASLIT LONDON IS BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES IN DAVID MORRELL'S BRILLIANT HISTORICAL THRILLER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir \u003ci\u003eConfessions of an English Opium-Eater, \u003c\/i\u003eis the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.\u003cu5:p\u003e\u003c\/u5:p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay \"On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.\" 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \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.","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179521130736,"sku":"2940173499660","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940173499660_p0.jpg?v=1763851541","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940173499660","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}