The Devil In The White City: The Chicago World Fair

The Devil In The White City: The Chicago World Fair by Erik Larson


ISBN
9780385602730
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
464

Chicago, 1893: One man built a heaven on earth, another built hell beside it . . .

The Chicago World Fair was the greatest fair in American history. This is the story of the men and women whose lives it irrevocably changed and of two men in particular: an architect and a serial killer.

The architect is Daniel Burnham, a man of great integrity and depth. It was his vision of the fair that attracted the best minds and talents of the day. The killer is Henry H. Holmes. Intelligent, handsome and charming, Holmes opened a boarding house which he advertised as 'The World's Fair Hotel'. Here in the neighbourhood where he was admired and liked by all, he seduced, tortured and murdered young women, incinerating them in the furnace he had built in the basement of his hotel.

Spicing the narrative are the sad, charming and funny stories of a supporting cast of historical characters including Buffalo Bill, Scott Joplin, Theodore Dreiser and George Ferris, the steel tycoon whose mammoth wheel became America's answer to the Eiffel tower.

The interweaving and juxtaposition of these two men's different 'missions' - one good and one evil - provides the core to a non-fiction suspense drama of the highest order.
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