num_pages: 409
description: A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN.THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by prot�g� and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a luxurious apartment overlooking the city, and another society beauty narrowly escapes the same fate, the mayor of New York calls upon Freud to use his revolutionary new ideas to help the surviving victim recover her memory of the attack, and solve the crime. But nothing about the attacks - or about the surviving victim, Nora - is quite as it seems. And there are those in very high places determined to stop the truth coming out, and Freud's startling theories taking root on American soil.
language: English
title: The Interpretation of Murder
titlecomplete: The Interpretation of Murder
characters: Sigmund Freud, Jimmy Littlemore, Carl Jung, Stratham Younger
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Psychology, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 15325
places: New York City, New York
series: Freud
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Galaxy British Book Awards
category: Best Read of the Year
publisher: Headline Review