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"Torture chambers, acid vats, secret passageways. At the height of his criminal career, the infamous Dr. H.H. Holmes designed his castle of horrors in Chicago, where he rented rooms to unsuspecting victims visiting the 1893 World's Fair. Further benefiting from his victims, Holmes sold their skeletons to local medical schools"--Back cover.
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A fascinating look into the mind of one of America's first serial killers, H. H. Holmes, also known as the Devil in the White City. He built a Murder Castle in Chicago with death on his mind and lured victims into secret rooms, vaults, and gas chambers. Holmes killed his business partner, Benjamin Pitezel, in Philadelphia and took his three children on a fateful cross-country trip. Includes 87 historical illustrations and photos with his birth, death...
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A detailed historical account of the serial killer calls on never before examined primary documents to reveal how he managed to take advantage of the crowds drawn by the 1893 World's Fair to create his own castle of horrors.
Herman W. Mudgett, better known by his alias, H.H. Holmes, is considered America's first-- and most notorious-- serial killer. During the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, the basement of his house in Englewood, Illinois contained...
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who,...
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor, was the satanic murderer of scores of young women in a torture palace built for the purpose near the fairgrounds. Burnham overcame great obstacles...
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"While attending the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Winnifred Wylde believes she witnessed a woman being kidnapped. She tries to convince her father, an inspector with the Chicago police, to look into reports of mysterious disappearances around the White City. Inspector Wylde tries to dismiss her claims as exaggeration of an overactive imagination, but he eventually concedes to letting her go undercover as secretary to the man in question--if she takes...
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"A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of H. H. Holmes' Murder Castle, inspired by America's first serial killer. But on arrival they soon discover they're being watched and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings... Can you outsmart the killer and escape with all your cast? All playable characters can live or die in your version of this decision...
12) Bloodstains
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"For decades, English investigators have been convinced that one, or two, of the Jack the Ripper murders were committed by an American surgeon in London. Maybe they were right"--P. [4] of cover.
This story set in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., San Francisco, New York, and London in the summer of 1888 is based on the true story of and facts uncovered by the author's investigation of the life of his great-great grandfather, Herman Webster...
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"A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of H. H. Holmes' Murder Castle, inspired by America's first serial killer. But on arrival they soon discover they're being watched and even manipulated, and suddenly there is much more at stake than just their ratings... Can you outsmart the killer and escape with all your cast? All playable characters can live or die in your version of this decision...
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In this first omnibus volume from Geary's increasing storied Treasuries of Murder: The trilogy of murders from the Victorian Age that made up the very first volume of this series ; "Jack the Ripper" as only Geary can narrate it with his slightly ghoulish sense of irony ; "The Fatal Bullet" about the assassination of President James Garfield ; and "The Beast of Chicago" about H.H. Holmes, possibly the first series murderer with chilling methodical...
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The Devil in the White City features explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols including: motivation; pride; fire; the color blue; sickness; dark and light. It also includes detailed analysis of these important characters: Daniel H. Burnham; H.H. Holmes; Frederick Law Olmsted. --
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