Southeast Adult Book Club Reading "Murder as a Fine Art" in September
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, 9:51 a.m.Southeast Library
Southeast Adult Book Club Reading "Murder as a Fine Art" in September
Join the discussion on Tuesday, September 30 at 7 p.m.
Please join us for the September Southeast Adult Book Club meeting on Tuesday, September 30 at 7 p.m. where we will discuss the historical mystery novel, Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell. Copies are available at Southeast Neighborhood Library and in ebook format from the library website.
Murder as a Fine Art is a fictional investigation featuring real life essayist Thomas De Quincey and the Ratcliff Highway murders. De Quincey, whose most famous work is Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, influenced the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Beaudelaire, Nikolai Gogol, and countless others.
Author David Morrell has written twenty-eight books to date, has been nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, and has won the Bram Stoker Award three times for his work. Morrell is most famous for his first novel, First Blood which was adapted into the movie Rambo. A former English professor, Morrell also co-founded the International Thriller Writers organization.
 | Synopsis: 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. |