by Caleb Carr · FRANCE LOISIRS / PRESSE DE LA CITE · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724291193
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«L'aliéniste» is the historical mystery novel by Caleb Carr, published by France Loisirs in hardback (490 pages, in French).
New York, 1896. Journalist John Schuyler Moore and Dr Laszlo Kreizler, an alienist and pioneer of psychology, examine the mutilated corpse of a boy. With the support of police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, they build a psychological profile of the culprit and venture into the city's underworld.
First instalment of the Dr Laszlo Kreizler series. The original title is The Alienist and this French edition was published in 1995.
For readers of historical mystery and psychological thriller, with a particular interest in late 19th-century New York.
Caleb Carr was an American military historian and author. Carr was the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz.
