5/26/2023 0 Comments The Alienist by Caleb Carr![]() ![]() “It’s just speculation,” John starts at one point. Kreizler’s colleagues analyze each clue for meaning and fill a chalkboard with possible interpretations. The process requires more guesswork than I remember Holmes engaging in (although to be fair, I haven’t read one of his cases in over twenty years). Most of the novel focuses on this endeavor, following Kreizler and his team as they research and theorize their way to a picture of their quarry. “If word gets out that you’ve brought someone like Kreizler in,” Moore says at one point, “why, you’d be better off hiring an African witch doctor!” But when a killer begins executing child prostitutes in horrific fashion, Teddy Roosevelt-at that time the commissioner of the New York Police Department-involves Kreizler anyway and asks him to covertly profile the murderer. In the 19th century, the field of psychology was still in its infancy, and Kreizler’s contention that childhood experiences shape adulthood is generally regarded with extreme skepticism. ![]()
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