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The interpretation of murder

Author: Jed Rubenfeld
Publisher: London : Headline Review, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New York on his first--and only--visit to the United States, a stunning debutante is found bound and strangled in her penthouse apartment, high above Broadway. The following night, another beautiful heiress, Nora Acton, is discovered tied to a chandelier in her parents' home, viciously wounded and unable to speak or to recall her ordeal. Soon Freud and his American  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Detective and mystery stories
Historical fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Sigmund Freud; C G Jung
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jed Rubenfeld
ISBN: 9780755331420 0755331427 9780755334797 0755334795
OCLC Number: 76798439
Notes: Originally published: New York: H. Holt, 2006.
Awards: Winner of British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2007.
Winner of BookScan Gold Awards 2007.
Description: 533 p. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Jed Rubenfeld.

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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  Read more...

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'A spectacular debut... fiendishly clever... a fascinating recreation of a golden age in which much of the New York of today is recognisable' -- Guardian 'Rubenfeld writes beautifully, his style Read more...

 
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