The Interpretation of Murder truly looks at how murder mysteries were solved back in Freud’s time, using basics which it can be hard to go back to in today’s world of high technology and forensic science. Mr. Rubenfeld does an amazing job of incorporating psychoanalysis into crime solving and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. One might think that since psychoanalysis is discussed a lot in The Interpretation of Murder people who do not know a lot about psychoanalysis would be lost, but they are not. How Freud interacts with Jung and his other colleagues is ingenious.

The solving of the murder in The Interpretation of Murder shares equal time with Freud and remains a mystery until near the end. There are enough suspects to keep readers guessing as to whodunit.

A true classic mystery novel that goes back to the basics.