MURDER AS A FINE ART.
by Morrell, David
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1587674181
- ISBN 13
- 9781587674181
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About This Item
Baltimore: : Cemetery Dance Publications,, 2016.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). Limited, signed edition - first thus. Literary thriller set in 19th century Victorian London. "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. The 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." Number 244 out of 500 copies, signed by Morrell on an illustrated limitation page. Includes an author's afterword and a conversation between Morrell and Robert Morrison, De Quincey's biographer. 406 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82671
- Title
- MURDER AS A FINE ART.
- Author
- Morrell, David
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1587674181
- ISBN 13
- 9781587674181
- Publisher
- Cemetery Dance Publications,
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore:
- Date Published
- 2016.
- Keywords
- historical fiction, victorian era, london, drug addiction, historical mystery,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliomystery and crime fiction;
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