The devil in the white city murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
(2013, original release: 2003)

Nonfiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/364.1523/LARSON,E

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Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/364.1523/LARSON,E Due: 4/21/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2013
©2003
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

691 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781410455765, 1410455769
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Aboard the Olympic -- Frozen music -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed -- The last crossing

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor, was the satanic murderer of scores of young women in a torture palace built for the purpose near the fairgrounds. Burnham overcame great obstacles to build his White City; Holmes used the attraction to lure women to their deaths. (Bestseller)