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The Alienist

Caleb Carr

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#4719 of 8,085 books · #719 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (1994).

The Alienist won the New York Times bestseller list. The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or "alienist"—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over. Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It is an age in which questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and fatal consequences.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781588365408
Topics
Serial killer investigationEarly criminal psychology/profilingGilded Age New York City

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