The Devil in the White City : Murder,
Magic, and Madness at the Fair That
Changed America by Erik Larson
True Story: Marvels And Murders At The 1893 World's Fair
True Crime, Chicago Worlds Fair
Personal Review: The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic,
and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Erik Larson ("Isaac's Storm") brilliantly weaves the story of the designing
and building of Chicago's World's Fair of 1893 with the madness of a
seemingly charming physician who, in essence, was one of America's first
serial killers.
While the great Chicago architect Daniel Burnham was designing and
building the fair (popularly known as "the White City"--so called because of
its tens of thousands of new-fangled electric light bulbs), the doctor was
carrying out his horrific deeds in a house right at the edge of the World
Exposition.
It has the suspense of a page-turning thriller and the "you-are-there" heart
beat of the best historical re-creation. It brings us as close to attending this
great World's Fair as we are likely to get. The story "feels like" the
novelized non-fiction of E.L. Doctorow ("Ragtime") meeting "Sweeney
Todd."
The reader comes to the conclusion that as America grew in population--
especially in a thriving metropolis such as Chicago--it was also beginning
to allow a nefarious killer like H.H. Holmes to achieve anonymity and, thus,
hide in plain sight.

Cinematic in its vivid and detailed panorama, it's one of the best non-fiction
books I have ever read....I highly recommend this book. ---Hoyt Harris,
KATC-TV
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