sayuri2023

Interpretation of Murder, by Jed Rubenfield, is by far, the most exciting and fascinating murder mystery I've ever read. Rubenfield writes beautifully, and brings forth the period of Manhattan 1909 perfectly in front of our eyes. What mostly interested me is the pschylogical aspect of it, before reading this book, I had very less knowledge about Sigmund Freud or of carl Jung's works. This novel was absolutely brilliant, and is like a roller coaster ride which takes us from Gramercy Park, to Chinatown and its conditions, secret connecting passages, Mahattan bridge construction; through all of this the author tries to bring forward a piece of history itself. It also includes the characters taken directly from the period, like the famous psychotherapists Jung and Freud, Brill, Stanley Hall, the 'Triumvirate', the murderer Henry Kendall Thaw, the list goes on and on.

On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New York on his first - and only - visit to the United States, a stunning débutante 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 disciple, Stratham Younger, are enlisted to help Miss Acton recover her memory, and to piece together the killer's identity. It is a riddle that will test their skills to the limit and lead them on a journey into the darkest places of the city, and of the human mind.

I really hope this book is turned into a movie some day. A must read for everyone..

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