The Tolle Lege Society, a secret club of writers and academicians dedicated to reading detailed descriptions of recent murders and appraising them on their artistry, has just welcomed its newest member, a brilliant young film scholar who has thoroughly impressed Charles Blackwood, the Society's sinister president. But when TLS representatives start to appear in the papers as victims of the very kinds of brutal crimes they purport to admire, Blackwood begins to suspect that one of his colleagues is less interested in theory than practice. Now it is up to him and the other surviving members of the Society to figure out how to stop a murderous madman without outing themselves as connoisseurs of a most despicable art. Penned by one of the great screenwriting talents of the early aughts, a Hollywood prodigy whose life was tragically cut short before a single one of his masterpieces could make it to the big screen, Murder as a Work of Art is Grisóstomo at his finest and an essential read for students of cinema everywhere.