The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The bestselling author of Isaac's Storm returns with a gripping tale about two men -- one a creative genius, the other a mass murderer -- who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. Set against the dazzle of a dream city whose technological marvels presaged the coming...
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The bestselling author of Isaac's Storm returns with a gripping tale about two men -- one a creative genius, the other a mass murderer -- who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. Set against the dazzle of a dream city whose technological marvels presaged the coming century, this real-life drama of good and evil unfolds with all the narrative tension of a fictional thriller.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780375725609
Publish date: 10-02-2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Mystery,
American History,
Crime,
True Crime,
Historical
I don't like scary books and this book has the subplot of a mass murderer with the kinds of gruesome details that give me bad dreams. I must honestly say that I raced through the scary parts as fast as I could and spent most of my time relishing the parts about the world's fair. The world's fair was...
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