| The Interpretation of Murder | |
| Author: | Jed Rubenfeld |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Mystery novel |
| Publisher: | Henry Holt and Company (US) Headline (UK) |
| Release Date: | 2006 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-8050-8098-8 |
| Isbn Note: | (Hardcover) |
| Dewey: | 813/.6 22 |
| Congress: | PS3618.U233 I58 2006 |
| Oclc: | 65302409 |
The Interpretation of Murder, published in 2006, is the first novel by the American law professor Jed Rubenfeld. The book is written in the first person perspective of Dr. Stratham Younger, supposedly an American psychoanalyst. Other events where he is not present he is informed upon so that he has enough knowledge to write and comment on them.
On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New York City on his first – and only – visit to the United States in 1909, a stunning débutante is found bound and strangled in her penthouse apartment, high above Broadway. The following night, another beautiful heiress, Nora Acton, is discovered tied to a chandelier in her parents' home, viciously wounded and unable to speak or to recall her ordeal. Soon Freud and his American disciple, Stratham Younger, are enlisted to help Miss Acton recover her memory, and to piece together the killer's identity.