Do you remember your first mystery book? and how it was so thrilling you stayed up until the next day reading it? now, imagine that, but a larger thrill, with suspence, and a twist of demented romance.Dr. H. H. Holmes and architect Daniel Burnham were both very talented, well spoken, and handsome men. Both were drawn to the White City, in more ways than one. Burnham was the main overseer of the city, and overcame many challenges in this project from malaria to strikes to the marsh-lands. Through Burnham, the Ferris wheel was born, and the city was almost the envy of pairs. Dr. Holmes was a malignant serial killer who used the attraction of the great city, as well as his dark charms to seek out many young and attractive women, who are then brought to his torture palace complete with a life size oven of over 3,000 degrees, a dissection table, a gas chamber, as well as a few more grotesque stations. The most frightening aspect is that this was an actual event that occurred in Chicago, 1895.
"The Devil in the White City" holds this answer, as well as a few more unnerving thoughts and questions.
Rating: 5Q, 4P
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