The Devil in the White City
Subtitle: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
By: [by] Erik Larson
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books; Vintage
Published: February 10, 2004
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780375725609
Copyright date: 2003
First sentence: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
Description: Set against the Chicago World Fair of 1893 two true tales are intertwined; Daniel Hudson Burnham, the architect behind the Fair -- and Henry H. Holmes, the serial killer using the Fair to kill his victims.
Notes: Includes notes, bibliography and index.
Table of contents: title: Evils Imminent (A Note)
pagenum: xi; label: Prologue
title: Aboard the Olympic
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: Frozen Music
pagenum: 9; title: The Black City
pagenum: 11; title: The Trouble is Just Begun
pagenum: 13; title: The Necessary Supply
pagenum: 35; title: Becomingness
pagenum: 48; title: Don’t Be Afraid
pagenum: 62; title: Pilgrimage
pagenum: 75; title: A Hotel for the Fair
pagenum: 85; title: The Landscape of Regret
pagenum: 94; title: Vanishing Point
pagenum: 100; title: Alone
pagenum: 104; label: Part II
title: An awful Fight
pagenum: 111; title: Convocation
pagenum: 113; title: Cuckoldry
pagenum: 123; title: Vexed
pagenum: 128; title: Remains of the Day
pagenum: 146; title: A Gauntlet Dropped
pagenum: 153; title: The Angel from Dwight
pagenum: 161; title: Dedication Day
pagenum: 167; title: Prendergast
pagenum: 183; title: I Want You at Once
pagenum: 185; title: Chappell Redux
pagenum: 186; title: The Cold-Blooded Fact
pagenum: 192; title: Acquiring Minnie
pagenum: 198; title: Dreadful Things Done by Girls
pagenum: 206; title: The Invitation
pagenum: 217; title: Final Preparations
pagenum: 218; label: Part III
title: In the White City
pagenum: 233; title: Opening Day
pagenum: 235; title: The World’s Fair Hotel
pagenum: 243; title: Prendergast
pagenum: 246; title: Night Is the Magician
pagenum: 247; title: Modus Operandi
pagenum: 256; title: One Good Turn
pagenum: 258; title: Nannie
pagenum: 264; title: Vertigo
pagenum: 269; title: Heathen Wanted
pagenum: 274; title: At Last
pagenum: 279; title: Rising Wave
pagenum: 282; title: Independence Day
pagenum: 290; title: Worry
pagenum: 293; title: Claustrophobia
pagenum: 294; title: Storm and Fire
pagenum: 299; title: Love
pagenum: 305; title: Freaks
pagenum: 309; title: Prendergast
pagenum: 317; title: Toward Triumph
pagenum: 318; title: Departures
pagenum: 321; title: Nightfall
pagenum: 327; title: The Black City
pagenum: 334; label: Part IV
title: Cruelty Revealed
pagenum: 337; title: Property of H. H. Holmes
pagenum: 339; title: Moyamensing Prison
pagenum: 351; title: The Tenant
pagenum: 354; title: A Lively Corpse
pagenum: 360; title: All the Weary Days
pagenum: 363; title: Malice Aforethought
pagenum: 369; label: Epilogue
title: The Last Crossing
pagenum: 371; title: The Fair
pagenum: 373; title: Recessional
pagenum: 379; title: Holmes
pagenum: 384; title: Aboard the Olympic
pagenum: 389; title: Notes and Sources
pagenum: 391; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 425; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 431; title: Illustration Credits
pagenum: 433; title: Index
pagenum: 435