The Interpretation of Murder

Fact: Something happened on Sigmund Freud’s only visit to America that has puzzled scholars ever since. Fiction: The similar murders of two young women prominent in 1909 New York society require the insight of the fledgling psychoanalytical community of Freud, Carl Jung and a therapist fresh out of Harvard. Rubenfeld’s literate, historical mystery is at once a vivid picture of turn of the century New York, a look at the controversy surrounding Freud’s sexual theories and a puzzle featuring psychology.

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