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SUMMARY:Devil in the White City by: Erik Larson
DESCRIPTION:  From Publishers Weekly Not long after Jack the Ripper ha
	unted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London\, H.H. Holmes (born Herman We
	bster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people\, mostly
	 single young women\, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago\; many
	 of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city's finest mome
	nt\, the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking new history is a 
	novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murdere
	r who lurked within it. Bestselling author Larson (Isaac's Storm) stri
	kes a fine balance between the planning and execution of the vast fair
	 and Holmes's relentless\, ghastly activities. The passages about Holm
	es are compelling and aptly claustrophobic\; readers will be glad for 
	the frequent escapes to the relative sanity of Holmes's co-star\, arch
	itect and fair overseer Daniel Hudson Burnham\, who managed the thousa
	nds of workers and engineers who pulled the sprawling fair together 0n
	 an astonishingly tight two-year schedule. A natural charlatan\, Holme
	s exploited the inability of authorities to coordinate\, creating a sm
	all commercial empire entirely on unpaid debts and constructing a pers
	onal cadaver-disposal system. This is\, in effect\, the nonfiction Ali
	enist\, or a sort of companion\, which might be called Homicide\, to E
	mile Durkheim's Suicide. However\, rather than anomie\, Larson is most
	 interested in industriousness and the new opportunities for mayhem af
	forded by the advent of widespread public anonymity. This book is ever
	ything popular history should be\, meticulously recreating a rich\, pr
	e-automobile America on the cusp of modernity\, in which the sale of "
	articulated" corpses was a semi-respectable trade and serial killers c
	ould go well-nigh unnoticed.\n
LOCATION:Postal code 33414\, United States @ West Palm Beach, Florida 
	33414 United States
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