The Interpretation of Murder

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author = Jed Rubenfeld
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Mystery novel
publisher = Henry Holt
release_date = 2006
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 384 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-0-8050-8098-8 (Hardcover)
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"The Interpretation of Murder", published in 2006, is Jed Rubenfeld's first novel. The book is written in the first person perspective of Dr. Stratham Younger, supposedly an American psychoanalyst. Other events where he is not present he is informed upon so that he has enough knowledge to write and comment on them.

Plot summary

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.

Characters in "The Interpretation of Murder"

*Sigmund Freud
*Carl Jung
*Abraham Brill
*Rose Brill
*Sándor Ferenczi
*George B. McClellan, Mayor of New York City
*Stratham Younger, Dr. (fictional). The first person story teller in the book.
*Nora Acton (fictional). Based on Freud's case study of "Dora" (Ida Bauer)
*Mr Harcourt Acton and Mrs Acton, Nora's parents (fictional)
*George Banwell, Building contractor (fictional)
*Clara Banwell, George Banwells wife (fictional)
*Jimmy Littlemore, Detective (fictional)
*Charles Hugel, Coroner (fictional)
*Granville Stanley Hall
*Ernest Jones
*Smith Ely Jeliffe, Dr, Publisher
*The "Triumvirate":
**Charles Loomis Dana
**Bernard Sachs
**M. Allen Starr
*Elizabeth Riverford (fictional)
*Mr and Mrs Biggs (fictional), the Acton family's servants
*Betty Longobardi (fictional)
*Chong Sing
*Leon Ling, alias William Leon
*Seamus Malley (fictional)
*Harry Thaw
*Elsie Sigel, granddaughter of General Franz Sigel
*Mr and Mrs Sigel, Elsie's parents
*Mabel, Mr and Mrs Sigel niece
*Charles Johnson
*Susan A.(Susie) Merrill, Brothel owner
*Mr and Mrs Hyslop
*Mr and Mrs Fish
*Charles Becker, Police Sergeant
*Louis Riviere

Places, land marks and buildings in "The Interpretation of Murder"

*Manhattan Bridge
*Gramercy Park
*Clark University
*Metropolitan Museum
*Hotel Manhattan
*Waldorf-Astoria (not current)
*Coney Island
*The Balmoral Hotel (fictional)

External links

* [http://www.interpretationofmurder.com/ The Interpretation of Murder official site]