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1 online resource |
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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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Random House, 2006. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1803 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1085 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Fiction.
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Psychologists -- History -- Fiction.
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Serial murders -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780812976144 |
| ISBN |
9781588365408 (electronic bk) |
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