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title: "The Alienist Paperback – October 24, 2006"
brand: "caleb carr"
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reviews_count: 9
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# The Alienist Paperback – October 24, 2006

**Brand:** caleb carr
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## Customer Reviews

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    Terrific Whydunnit
  

*by Z***7 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 25, 2023*

This book is so much more than a murder mystery. It reads like a 19th century adventure novel mashed up with a psychological treatise.  It takes the reader into the seamy underbelly of the Gilded Age,  transporting them to a New York City filled with drugs, child prostitutes, police corruption, and abject poverty. Juxtaposed against these are the truly good characters of Laszlo Kreiszler, John Moore, Sarah Howard, and (fascinatingly) Theodore Roosevelt. Together, this team, along with a host of quirky characters, tracks a serial murderer through the poverty and crime filled streets of the Lower East Side.What makes this book unique is its approach to solving the murders. The focus is never Who committed the murders, but WHY he feels compelled to kill. It is a fascinating glimpse into early psychological theories. The identity of the killer, which is discovered fairly quickly, takes second place to his motives, his upbringing, and how he is shaped by his past.Written in the early 1990s, there is none of the virtue signaling or preaching about the sins of our nation's past. The sordid crimes and even more perverse elements that prey on society's darker urges are not excused. There are no lectures on racism, sexism, and popular "phobias" disguised as fiction. Instead, the author presents history as is, warts and all, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions about life in the late 19th century. The good are virtuous and the bad are villianous, no matter what their standing in society or how they are oppressed by their circumstances.I recommend this book to anyone who likes to know the why of crimes rather than the who, and to any who enjoy a good historical romp. The politically correct should avoid it.

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    gripping
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2023*

Enjoyed the journey immensely . Any fan of a great murder mystery and a vicid historical context will love it.

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    a Great Read!
  

*by K***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2023*

For lovers of mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels with a dash of the Noel Coward like flair that the actor brought to the stage and screen, this is your book!Late 19th century Manhattan - with young political luminaries such as Theodore Roosevelt, the multi-millionaire J. P Morgan, dinners at Delmonico’s, carriage rides from downtown to uptown and back again around the perimeter of Washington Square Park, concerts at the Metropolitan opera house, forays into the Museum of Natural History - Caleb Carr’s book the Alienist brings us the scent and flavor of a growing New York City rife with crime, ambition, and even romance, as the city grinds forward toward the modern era.Each character and plot twist in this novel is a rich vein of ore that Caleb Carr mines with depth and agility right down to the bedrock.

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