The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel

International Bestseller#1 U.K. BestsellerThe Wall Street Journal BestsellerLos Angeles Times Bestseller. In the summer of 1909 Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years he would never return to this country. Little is known about the week he spent in Manhattan and Freuds biographers have long speculated as to why in his later years he referred to Americans as savages and criminals.. In The Interpretation of Murder Jed Rubenfeld weaves the facts of Freuds visit into a riveting atmospheric story of corruption and murder set all over turn-of-the-century New York. Drawing on case histories Shakespeares Hamlet and the historical details of a city on the brink of modernity The Interpretation of Murder introduces a brilliant new storyteller a novelist who in the words of The New York Times will be no ordinary pop-cultural sensation.