EXCLUSIVE : Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous creator and X-Men: First Class and Thor screenwriter Zack Stentz will adapt Murder As A Fine Art , the first novel in David Morrell’s ( First Blood ) Victorian mystery trilogy, as a TV series.
Set in 1854 London, the historical thriller dramatizes a sequence of grisly murders that paralyze London. The killings imitate killings described in an infamous essay, On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts , written by one of the most notorious personalities of the era, Thomas De Quincey. When De Quincey becomes the logical suspect, he teams up with his brilliant daughter and a pair of suspicious Scotland Yard detectives to prove his innocence and stop a killer who has turned De Quincey’s words into a deadly instruction manual.
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