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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
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- ISBN: 0609608444 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780375725609 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xi, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-429) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic (1912) -- Frozen music (Chicago, 1890-1891) -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed (1894-5) Property of H.H. Holmes -- Epilogue, the last crossing. |
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| Subject: | Serial murders Illinois Chicago Case studies Serial murderers Illinois Chicago Biography World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Mudgett, Herman W 1861-1896 |
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- 1 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 364.15232 M944L 2003 (Text) | 33126024506333 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | 364.15232 M944L 2003 (Text) | 33126023113404 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/15/2024 |
| Independence Branch | 364.15232 M944L 2003 (Text) | 33126022795813 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 04/25/2024 |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2003 January #1
Before the turn of the 20th century, a city emerged seemingly out of the ash of then dangerous Chicago, a dirty, grimy, teeming place ravaged by urban problems. Daniel Burnham, the main innovator of the White City of the 1892 World's Fair, made certain that it became the antithesis of its parent city, born to glow and gleam with all that the new century would soon offer. While the great city of the future was hastily being planned and built, the specially equipped apartment building of one Herman Webster Mudgett was also being constructed. Living in a nearby suburb and walking among the hundreds of thousands of visitors who would eventually attend the fair, Mudgett, a doctor by profession more commonly known as H.H. Holmes, was really an early serial killer who preyed on the young female fair goers pouring into Chicago. Using the fair as a means of attracting guests to a sparsely furnished "castle" where they ultimately met their end, Holmes committed murder, fraud, and numerous other crimes seemingly without detection until his arrest in 1894. Both intimate and engrossing, Larson's (Isaac's Storm) elegant historical account unfolds with the painstaking calm of a Holmes murder. Although both subjects have been treated before, paralleling them here is unique. Highly recommended.-Rachel Collins, "Library Journal" Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.