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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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"Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a...
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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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"This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection Mary, Lonely Ghost of Lake Forest, St. Rita's and so many...
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"Does it take a monster to catch a monster? As a student, Francis Vincenti asked his mentor, former Chicago PD detective Thomas Aquinas Foster, if it took a monster to catch a monster. Foster, a man with a tortured soul and his own self-righteous brand of justice, didn't have an answer. Now a detective with a string of famous arrests under his belt, Vincenti is known as a cop with an uncanny insight into a killer's psyche. Until the Bricklayer of...
8) Heartland serial killers: Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, and murder for profit in gaslight era Chicago
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"The chilling true story of two turn-of-the-century serial killers, Belle Gunness and Johann Hoch"--
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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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"Chicago, rok 1918. Sierżant Teodor Rucki dopiero rozpoczyna karierę w policji, ale brak doświadczenia nadrabia ulicznym sprytem i szybkimi pięściami. W polskiej dzielnicy ktoś podrzuca bestialsko okaleczone zwłoki, a na płocie i w pobliskim kościele maluje farbą anarchistyczny napis. Rucki rozpoczyna śledztwo, które prowadzi go przez najbiedniejsze i najniebezpieczniejsze rejony miasta. Morderca zabija kolejne ofiary w okrutny i teatralny...
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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. --
19) Piąta ofiara
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Chicago. Jedna z najsurowszych zim od wielu lat. Pod powierzchnią zamarzniętego jeziora zostaje odkryte ciało nastolatki Elli Reynolds. Dziewczyna zaginęła trzy tygodnie temu, tylko że jezioro jest zamarznięte od kilku miesięcy-- Media uważają, że za porwaniem stoi seryjny morderca. Wkrótce giną kolejne ofiary. Instynkt detektywa Portera podpowiada mu, że sprawa jest początkiem czegoś bardzo złego.
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"The basement of his infamous Chicago "Castle" (which The Chicago Times described as a "murder factory") boasted a crematory, lime pits, acid vats, and torture devices. Also in the basement was his "human elasticizer," a basic torture rack that he believed could be employed to create a race of giants. An incredible and chilling true story, Devil's Disciple: The Deadly Dr. H. H. Holmes, is the biography of a real-life Jekyll & Hyde, told in the killer's...
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