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      On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

      by Thomas De Quincey
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      Suspense Suspense
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      128
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      In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism, and aesthetic judgments, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams. In addition to this essay's Swiftian exercise in irony, he investigated the Williams case further in a postscript, resulting in a dramatic suspense-filled narrative that prefigures Capote's In Cold Blood and the modern true-crime genre.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Aug 2010 Oneworld Classics Ltd ISBN13 9781847491336 ISBN10 1847491332
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      Sep 2012 ISBN10 B0098P06H0
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