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Incendiary : the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling / Michael Cannell.

By: Publication details: New York : Minotaur Books, 2017.Description: xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781250182364
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.325092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6640 .C36 2017
Contents:
Angel of justice -- Bomb squad -- Mr. Think -- Reverse psychiatry -- Poplar Street -- Up from the streets -- The Paramount -- "It will be buttoned" -- "Keep out of this" -- The publisher -- The truce -- The dead files -- Fair play -- Interrogation -- The smiling avenger -- Mr. Death -- Matteawan.
Summary: Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-twentieth-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.

Angel of justice -- Bomb squad -- Mr. Think -- Reverse psychiatry -- Poplar Street -- Up from the streets -- The Paramount -- "It will be buttoned" -- "Keep out of this" -- The publisher -- The truce -- The dead files -- Fair play -- Interrogation -- The smiling avenger -- Mr. Death -- Matteawan.

Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-twentieth-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement.

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