“Murder as a Fine Art,” the Victorian mystery thriller by bestseller author David Morrell, best known as the creator of John Rambo and the writer of “First Blood,” is set to be adapted into a TV series.

Rights to the novel has been bought by A Higher Standard and Harris Films, with the series set to mark the first TV project for A Higher Standard, launched last year by former Millennium president Jeffrey Greenstein .

Set in 1850s London, the novel blends fact and fiction as it follows Thomas De Quincey, the real-life and otorious opium-eater and essayist, as he’s implicated in a series of gruesome murders that appear to be inspired by his own sensational essay, “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.” To clear his name, De Quincey must team up with his brilliant daughter Emily

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