The Alienist by Caleb Carr [FIRST EDITION] 1994 • 5th • Random House

The Alienist by Caleb Carr [DR. LASZLO KREIZLER #1]

FIRST EDITION • FIFTH PRINTING [1994] RANDOM HOUSE N.Y.

Hardcover with dust jacket in beautiful condition. 

Dust jacket is excellent with mild shelf wear.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is excellent; clean, tight copy that reads good as new; one small red pub. mark on top of text block. 

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.   - Bookshop Apocalypse