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When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology.
Nueva York, 1896. John Schuyler Moore, reportero de sucesos de The New York Times, recibe en plena madrugada la llamada de su antiguo compañero de Harvard, el famoso alienista (como se conocía entonces a los psicólogos) Laszlo Kreizler, quien le cita en el puente de Williamsburg, escenario de un horrible asesinato. Theodore Roosevelt, jefe de policía de la ciudad, solicita la colaboración de ambos amigos para indagar el crimen, una atrevida iniciativa, pues el alienista es visto con desconfianza por una sociedad conservadora, que considera que un asesino nace y no se hace. A ellos se une Sara Howard, primera mujer que trabaja en la comisaría, y los hermanos Isaacson, pioneros en las nuevas técnicas de investigación. Mientras que el grupo intenta trazar el perfil psicológico de un asesino del que lo ignora todo, este parece conocerlos perfectamente...
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Fiction, Serial murders, Mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Serial murders -- Fiction, Psychologists, Police corruption, Journalists, Serial murders, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical, Homicide, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Kreizler, laszlo (fictitious character), fiction, Forensic psychiatrists, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Asesinatos seriales, Novela policíaca, Ficción, Novela histórica, Unabridged Books on compact disc, Audiobooks, Novela policíaca americana, Novela policíaca americana -- Ficción, New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Nueva York (N.Y.) -- Ficción, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, mystery & detective, historicalShowing 10 featured editions. View all 46 editions?
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Die Einkreisung: Roman ; [Thriller]
2007, Heyne
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- Vollst. dt. Taschenbuchausg.
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The Alienist: A Novel
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Translation of: The alienist.
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The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.
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