In “The Alienist,” the 1994 best-selling historical thriller by Caleb Carr, a group of unlikely sleuths kept a running tally of a serial killer’s known traits, the better to get inside his head to ...

Caleb Carr, the bestselling author of The Alienist who repeatedly mined the origins of violence in both his fiction and nonfiction works, has died. He was 68 years old. Carr died from cancer at his ...