The Angel of Darkness (1997) (edit title/settings)

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• Dr. Laszlo Kriezler
• John Moore
• Sara Howard
• Marcus Isaacson
• Lucius Isaacson
• Cyrus Montrose
• Mr. Picton
• Mr. Darrow
• Libby Hatch
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Ana Linares
• El Nino
• Hickie
• Mrs. Wright
• Mike
• Mrs. Cady Stanton
• Ding Dong
• Henry
• Mrs. Hastings
• Judge Brown
• Mrs. Hunter
• Kat
• Knox
• Doctor
• Mr. Maxon
• Clara
• Frederick
• Kimball
• Rupert
• Mrs. Franklin
• Matthew
• Beecham
• Dr. Lawrence
• Dunning
• Frankie
• Senora Linares
• Laszlo
• Mrs. Muhlenberg

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• “There's nothing truly natural or unnatural under the sun.”

  Dr. Laszlo Kreizler

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• we’ll find ourselves in some shadow world, where lawyers use the ignorance of the average citizen to manipulate justice the way priests did in the Middle Ages.

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• She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren’t the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told….

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• “It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society—more important, even, than honest or decent—is identifiable.

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• I’ve never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

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• if you don’t find what you’re looking for tonight, it’s all that much more important that you try again tomorrow.

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• But it never stopped him from working, from pressing ahead, and it’s that ability—to work through the self-doubts what any worthwhile human being feels—that is, so far as I can tell, the only thing what separates a meaningful life from a useless one.

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• There can’t be many people in the world what can blow wind like your average psychologists and alienists.

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• Marybeth Tinning, Ann Rule for her incisive work on the Diane Downs case, Andrea Peyser for her reporting on and analysis of the Susan Smith murders, and my friend John Coston for his examination of Ellen Boehm.

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• if the story of Libby Hatch teaches us anything at all, it’s that Nature’s domain includes every form of what society calls “unnatural” behavior; that in fact, just as Dr. Kreizler has always said, there’s nothing truly natural or unnatural under the sun.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York City
• Chicago
• United States
• Hudson Street
• Spain
• Stillwater
• Seventeenth Street
• Washington County
• Lying-in Hospital
• Central Park
• Mulberry Street
• Mr. Montrose
• Bethune Street
• Stuyvesant Park
• California
• Manila
• High Street
• Brooklyn
• San Francisco
• Hudson Valley
• Manhattan
• West Side
• Palisades
• Sing Sing
• West Street

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Alienist.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Caleb Carr (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Boyd Gaines (Reader) - Simon & Schuster Audioworks (1997)Simon & Schuster Audio (April 7, 2010)
2. Jonathan Marosz (Narrator) - Books On Tape, Inc. (1998)
3. Kim Barnes (Illustrator) - The Franklin Library; First Edition edition (1997)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3553.A76277 A85 1997b
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Carr, Caleb
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Carr, Caleb
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary