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The devil in the white city : murder, magic and madness at the fair that changed America (LARGE PRINT)

text The devil in the white city : murder, magic and madness at the fair that changed America (LARGE PRINT)

Larson, Erik

Summary
Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes u... Read more
Contents

Evils imminent (a note) -- Prologue: aboard the Olympic -- Frozen music -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed -- Epilogue: the last crossing.

Format
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Description
689 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Publisher
Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013
MARC Permalink

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Peninsula Community Library LP 364.152 LAR in Adult Available

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