In 1896 New York, a pioneering psychologist assembles a secret team to profile a serial killer.
Books mentioned in The Alienist (3)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “they were learning English by studying Shakespeare. When I was born they’d just started, with Julius Caesar.”
Principles of Psychology by William James: “for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James, The Principles of Psychology”
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins: “The Moonstone that Lucius Isaacson had lent him and began very contentedly reading.”