Keith Oatley

13-digit ISBN: 9781-929355-30-3

Price: $18 (trade paperback) * 378 pages

About this book: The Case of Emily V. was first published in Great Britain in 1994. It has never been released in the U.S. , and we are extremely proud to be able to do this. This mystery involves the story of Emily in fin de sičcle Vienna , a young woman who is horribly distraught because of the murder of a British diplomat, a murder she believes she committed. But did she? Her therapist, the famous Dr. Sigmund Freud, suggests to his colleagues that she may in fact be fantasizing that she is guilty. Sara, her colleague/lover, is supportive of her regardless of what she did. It takes the famous Sherlock Holmes, called in by Scotland Yard, to try to resolve this issue. This highly psychological mystery keeps a reader wondering until the final pages, and in fact the addition of a fourth “voice,” that of psychologist Dr. Ellen Berger, is finally used to help unravel the mystery.

This book was eleven weeks on the Globe and Mail best seller list. It was reprinted four times before being reissued as a Minerva paperback. It was shortlisted for the Mind Prize in UK , and it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel. It has been translated into German and French.

About the author: Keith Oatley has been a member of faculty at the universities of Sussex , Glasgow , and Toronto , where he has conducted research on emotions and on the psychology of fiction. He has published several non-fiction books in psychology, including Brain Mechanisms and Mind, Perceptions and Representations, Selves in Relation, Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of Emotions, and Understanding Emotions. His other published novel, A Natural History (Penguin Canada ) is about a researcher trying, in the middle of the nineteenth century, to discover the cause of infectious diseases. He is now working on his third novel, about an archaeologist who discovers a Greek novella written 2500 years ago.