For some, like david morrell, who profess an unbounded ardor for de quincey’s writings, these few pages breed a lively fascination. Morrell never cheats -- you get the clues along with the characters.

David morrell paints a stunning picture of victorian london. The author does an artful job of creating the mood of the period.

There is a lot of action and suspense involved from beginning to end. The reader leaves the work satisfied that this is an extremely well written book.

This is no woman in white or the glass of time, but it is better than the louis bayard books i've read and quite enjoyable. Well researched and well written.

As a fine art is a novel about the ratcliffe highway murders of 1854. The main character, thomas de quincey, is an opium-addicted artist. He uses laudanum to link his conscious and subconscious.