The alienist

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599 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 1995 by Bantam.

ISBN:
978-0-553-57299-5
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OCLC Number:
32732521

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When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators are forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology. Reprint. NYT.

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reviewed The Alienist by Caleb Carr

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It was okay, though fairly forgettable. Kind of a New York based Sherlock Holmes pastiche. Decent enough, I guess, with a dull fart of an ending.

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Subjects

  • Serial murders -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
  • Mystery fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.