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Input (English): Context: The Alienist is a crime novel by Caleb Carr first published in 1994 and is the first book in the Kreizler series. It takes place in New York City in 1896, and includes appearances by many famous figures of New York society in that era, including Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan. The sequel to the novel is "The Angel of Darkness". The story follows Roosevelt, then New York City police commissioner, and Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, as their investigative team attempts to solve gruesome murders through new methods including fingerprinting and psychology. The first murder victim investigated is a 13-year-old immigrant who has had his eyes removed, his genitals removed and stuffed in his mouth, and other injuries. The investigators deal with various interest groups that wish to maintain the status quo regarding the poor immigrant population in New York City., Lucien Carr (March 1, 1925  January 28, 2005) was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s; later he worked for many years as an editor for United Press International., Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London., Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction or science fiction, but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has multiple subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction and legal thrillers. Suspense and mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre., John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was the narrator in the original stories. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and the first person narrator of all but four of these stories. He is described as the typical Victorian-era gentleman, unlike the more eccentric Holmes. He is astute, although he can never match his friend's deductive skills., Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Known as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for a proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. , A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, or lampoon) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original workits subject, author, style, or some other targetby means of satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, "parody  is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Another critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice."
Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music (although "parody" in music has an earlier, somewhat different meaning than for other art forms), animation, gaming, and film., Upstate New York is the portion of the American state of New York lying north of New York City. The region includes most of the state of New York, excluding New York City and its environs, as well as Long Island, though the precise boundary is debated. Upstate New York includes the major cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and Syracuse., Informally, two kinds of logical reasoning can be distinguished in addition to formal deduction: induction and abduction. Given a precondition or "premise", a conclusion or "logical consequence" and a rule or "material conditional" that implies the "conclusion" given the "precondition", one can explain that:, Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainlyon the criminal sideduring criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure. , A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates., Caleb Carr is a military historian and author born August 2, 1955 in New York, New York. Carr is the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz. He is the critically acclaimed author of "The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, The Lessons of Terror, Killing Time, The Devil Soldier, The Italian Secretary," and "The Legend of Broken". He has taught military history at Bard College, and worked extensively in film, television, and the theater. His military and political writings have appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, among them "The Washington Post, The New York Times," and "The Wall Street Journal". He lives in upstate New York., The Angel of Darkness is a 1997 crime novel by Caleb Carr that was published by Random House (ISBN 0-7515-2275-9) and is a sequel to "The Alienist" (1994), and is the second book in the Kreizler series., The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated to NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. "The New York Times" has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization., Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859  7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction., The Italian Secretary is mystery fiction by Caleb Carr featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson . This literary pastiche is meant as an honourable homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and one that had the approval of the Doyle estate ., Subject: the italian secretary, Relation: instance_of, Options: (A) angel (B) application (C) art (D) august (E) book (F) carr (G) character (H) city (I) college (J) comment (K) crime (L) criminal (M) culture (N) daily newspaper (O) drama (P) estate (Q) fiction (R) fictional character (S) film (T) four (U) genre (V) gentleman (W) headquarters (X) history (Y) house (Z) island ([) january (\) journal (]) july (^) key (_) killing (`) march (a) material (b) may (c) member (d) metropolitan (e) military (f) music (g) news (h) newspaper (i) organization (j) parody (k) person (l) police (m) reasoning (n) science (o) sequel (p) series (q) service (r) soldier (s) state (t) street (u) style (v) team (w) territorial police force (x) theater (y) three (z) time ({) two (|) variety (}) work (~) year
Output (English): book