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| | Amazon.com: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America: Books: Erik Larson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Yet beneath the teeming activity and a short distance away from the gleaming white Pleasure Palaces of the Fair, there stood a building of a different sort entirely, inhabited by one of the most vicious, truly evil creatures the young nation ever produced. |
 | | Larson does an adequate, but not great job of telling the darker story surrounding H H Holmes, the mesmeric Svengali whose brilliant blue eyes and engaging charm seduced at least a score (one estimate was up to 200, which the author disputes) unfortunate women. |
 | | Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect and overseer of the fair, builds the White City itself, while Henry H. Holmes is the titular devil, a charismatic young doctor with blood-curdling obsessions. |
| www.amazon.com /Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601 (2835 words) |
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