An Intricate Tale of murder and the mind’s most dangerous mysteries

The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud arrives in New York. Among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud’s most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius’s first–and only–journey to America.

The morning after Freud’s arrival, in an opulent penthouse across the city, a woman is discovered murdered–whipped, mutilated, and strangled with a white silk tie. The next day, a rebellious heiress named Nora Acton barely escapes becoming the killer’s second victim. Yet, suffering from hysteria, Miss Acton cannot remember the terrifying incident or her attacker. Asked to consult on the case, Dr. Younger calls on the visiting Freud to guide him through the girl’s analysis.

The Interpretation of Murder is an intricately plotted, elegantly wrought entertainment filled with delicious surprises, subtle sleights of hand, and fascinating ideas. Drawing on Freud’s case histories, Shakespeare’s Hamlet , and the rich history of New York, this remarkable novel marks the debut of a brilliantly engaging new storyteller.

作者介紹：賈德•魯本菲爾德就讀過普林斯頓大學、尤利亞德戲劇學院和哈佛大學法學院，現在是耶魯大學法學院副院長、講座教授。魯本菲爾德最近齣版的的著作是《司法革命：美國憲法的結構》（哈佛大學齣版社，2005年）和備受稱贊的《時間和自由：自治的憲政理論》（耶魯大學齣版社，2001年）。

譯者簡介：李繼宏，廣東揭陽人，2003年畢業於中山大學社會學係，譯有《維納斯的誕生》（上海人民，2005.5）、《追風箏的人》（上海人民，2006.5）、《謀殺的解析》（上海譯文，2006.9）、《倒轉地極》（上海人民，2007.1）、《煙花散盡》（上海人民，2007.5）、《充滿奇想的一年》（吉林文史，2007.6）、《燦爛韆陽》（上海人民，2007.8）等書。