Thomas De Quincey, best known for his memoirConfessions of an Opium Eater, is the prime suspect in a series of ferocious London murders. The blueprint for the crimes seems to be De Quincey's satire "On Murder Considered to be One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by this brilliant and devoted daughter Emily and a pair of tenacious Scotland Yard detectives. MURDER AS A FINE ART recreates gaslit London as a battleground between a literary luminary and a master killer whose secrets are deeply entwinted with De Quincey's own, in a riveting thriller that brings to mind the likes of Dan Simmons'Droodand Caleb Carr'sThe Alienist.