by Caleb Carr · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266072243
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«L'Aliéniste» is the historical mystery novel by Caleb Carr, published by Pocket in paperback (576 pages, in French).
New York, 1896. A serial killer leaves mutilated teenage corpses in the Lower East Side, with the authorities failing to act. Theodore Roosevelt, police commissioner, commissions an investigation from journalist John Schuyler Moore and alienist Laszlo Kreizler. Using pioneering psychological profiling techniques, they try to stop the criminal.
First installment of the Dr Laszlo Kreizler series. The original title of this novel is The Alienist.
For readers of historical thrillers and crime fiction who enjoy period criminal investigations and the beginnings of psychological profiling.
Caleb Carr was an American military historian and author. Carr was the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz.
