Format:
Book
Title:
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson.
Author:
Larson, Erik. 1954-
Call Number:
364.152309 Larson
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Vintage Books, c2003.
Description:
447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects:
Mudgett, Herman W., 1861-1896.
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912.
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Serial murderers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Serial murders -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century.
True crime.
Adult core collection.
Genre:
Biographies.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
0609608444 (hardcover)
9780375725609 (trade)