"The Alienist" (Random House), Caleb Carr's unexpected and resilient best seller starring Theodore Roosevelt as New York City's police commissioner at the turn of the century, just fetched a tidy sum in paperback rights.
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Wanda Chappell, the publisher's director of subsidiary rights, who negotiated the sale, said Bantam won the paperback auction for $1,001,000. It's particularly nice for Random House, because the company originally paid Carr an advance of just $60,000.