The Interpretation of Murder: The Richard and Judy Bestseller

The Interpretation of Murder: The Richard and Judy Bestseller

by JedRubenfeld (Author)

Synopsis

A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protege and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a luxurious apartment overlooking the city, and another society beauty narrowly escapes the same fate, the mayor of New York calls upon Freud to use his revolutionary new ideas to help the surviving victim recover her memory of the attack, and solve the crime. But nothing about the attacks - or about the surviving victim, Nora - is quite as it seems. And there are those in very high places determined to stop the truth coming out, and Freud's startling theories taking root on American soil.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Edition: Export Ed
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 05 Feb 2007

ISBN 10: 0755334795
ISBN 13: 9780755334797
Book Overview: An intricately plotted literary thriller that uses Freud's theories and Shakespeare's HAMLET to solve a devious crime, this is a novel in the bestselling tradition of Caleb Carr's THE ALIENIST and Matthew Pearl's THE DANTE CLUB.
Prizes: Winner of British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2007 and BookScan Gold Awards 2007.

Media Reviews
This is a bold page-turner that propels us from the start with with a driving plot and intriguing characters... Here is a novel that you'll only want to put down in order to think more about the book. Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club
Author Bio
Jed Rubenfeld studied Philosophy and Psychology at Princeton, Law at Harvard, and acting at the Juilliard School of Drama. A chaired professor of constitutional and criminal law at Yale, he has been described as 'the most elegant legal writer of his generation'.