![]() ![]() ![]() The year is 1897, and Carr's plot is initiated by the kidnapping of a Spanish diplomat's baby-then thickens, quite pleasurably, as suspicion falls on Elspeth Hunter, a malevolent nurse who is actually Libby Hatch, a malevolent gang moll and the suspected murderess of her own children. ![]() Laszlo Kreizler, investigative journalist John Schuyler Moore, and Kreizler's assistant Stevie ``Stevepipe'' Taggert (who tells the story) figure prominently in the investigation of a peculiarly dastardly crime. As in that novel, the figures of ``alienist'' (i.e., psychologist) Dr. An absorbing if overlong sequel to Carr's popular 1994 thriller, The Alienist. ![]()
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