A serial killer is butchering boy prostitutes in New York City.
Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt enlists a reporter and
groundbreaking psychologist (known as an "alienist" in 1896)
to track the killer by compiling his psychological profile.
The real mystery here, however, lies in finding out what happens
in the sections of the novel that were abridged. Who are all
these characters? How did they jump to their apparently absurd
conclusions? Where is the social history of the city and the
celebrity cameos that the printed book's reviewers found so
enticing? To judge by the level of suspense reader Edward
Hermann can generate during selected passages, this may be
a very good novel. Libraries would do best to wait for an
unabridged release or stick with the print version.

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