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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)

Caleb Carr

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May 29, 2023 Celia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-library, ten-year-challenge, historical-fiction-read, audible, 52-2023, 2023-kindle-counted, 2023-read, 2023-s-rcc

Alienist: a psychiatrist who assesses the competence of a defendant in a court of law.

The book is not actually based on real events but does feature some real life historical figures.

The core characters are all fictitious except for the New York City police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt.

Real life New York detective Thomas Byrnes, who popularised the term "Rogues' Gallery", also appears in the series.

In the book other historical figures, including the financier J.P. Morgan also appear.

However t ...more

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Mar 31, 2023 ˜”*°•.˜”*°• Sheri •°*”˜.•°*”˜ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: group-read-mystery, historical-crime

I admit I had to look up what Alienist means – former term for a psychiatrist – likely originated from the French word aliene, meaning “insane” thus the noun alieniste or alienist in English referred to someone who treated the “insane.”

It is 1896 in New York City, newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, who is an “alienist”, to come see a mutilated body of a boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge.

Schuyler and Kriezlier are then enliste ...more

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