
It appears that someone is trying to kill Norman de Ratour, the fastidious, old-school director of the Museum of Man in the coastal New England city of Seaboard. The Art of Murder takes our hero through some hair-raising and absurd adventures to the very threshold of death's door and unceremoniously kicks open that looming portal. But not before a lot of laughter in the dark, which echoes through the series starting with the first, a work The New Yorker dubbed "An adroit, hilarious send-up."