The phrase "art of murder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the concept or skill involved in committing murder, often in a metaphorical or artistic sense.
Example: "The novel explores the chilling art of murder through the eyes of a cunning detective."
Alternatives: "craft of killing" or "skill of assassination".
His 1944 essay "The Simple Art of Murder" was a call for defiance of the traditional British mystery story.
(In his 1950 essay "The Simple Art of Murder," Raymond Chandler would deem Van Dine's Philo Vance "probably the most asinine character in detective fiction").
YONKERS Yonkers Public Library, Grinton I. Will branch "The Art of Murder," mystery by Joe DiPietro, presented by M and M productions.
In Archibaldo's gloriously imagined, carefully planned, and meticulously staged schemes, the art of murder and the art of movies appear to be closely aligned.
Raymond Chandler's 1944 essay, "The Simple Art of Murder", savaged the Golden Age whodunnit and its practitioners, including Christie, and praised the more realistic American pulp school of crime writing exemplified by Hammett.
Who cares or even remembers (as Chandler pointed out in "The Simple Art of Murder") who killed Miles Archer, Spade's partner, in "The Maltese Falcon" — despite the fact that Archer's murder is what sets off the whole business?
Francisco Goldman's investigation into the murder of Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi, The Art of Political Murder, Stuart A Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred and the solitary novel on the shortlist, Enrique Vila-Matas's study of an obsessive writer, Montano's Malady, completed the line-up.
Rodrigo Rosenberg had democratized the art of political murder.
"He was seeing conspiracies everywhere," Francisco Goldman, the author of "The Art of Political Murder," told me.
Goldman felt that The Art of Political Murder, which took grave risks to assail the impunity of state-sponsored killers, at least opened a "path in the darkness".
One such case, of Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera, shot to death in 1998, was detailed in a 2007 book by Francisco Goldman, "The Art of Political Murder".
