• Title: The Devil in the White City
• Author: Erik Larson
• Genre/Subject: True crime
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Start date: 1/2/2022
• Finish date: 1/9/2022

Review:

Excellent, entertaining from cover to cover.

Three narrative threads are woven together:

• The design and construction of the 1893 Columbian exposition
• One man’s obsession with then-Mayor Harrison
• The disturbing account of H.H. Holmes, the Fiend of Chicago and his murder castle

The book offers a unique glimpse into 19th century Chicago life. The stench, the crime, all the way to the glory of the world’s fair and the starry-eyed visions of the future it embodied.

Will have to see what else this author (and historian!) has written.

5 stars fo sho.