The Angel of Darkness

by Caleb Carr

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PghDragonMan recommends Paradise Alley: A Novel (Today Show Book Club #6) by Kevin Baker, "If you like historical novels of early New York, this one's for you."

PghDragonMan recommends The Alienist by Caleb Carr, "From the case files of Dr. Lazlo Kreizler, a fictitious early practitioner of what is know known as Psychology."

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Series (with order)

Laszlo Kreizler (2)

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1997

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New York, New York, USA

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Dr. Laszlo Kreizler

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1997)

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There's likely some polished way of starting a story like this, a clever bit of gaming that'd sucker people in surer than the best banco feeler in town.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345427637, Mass Market Paperback)

In one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .

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