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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson. |
| Authors: | Larson, Erik. |
| Call number: | 364.1523 LAR |
| Publisher: | New York : Crown Publishers: Vintage Books, c2003. |
| Publication date: | c2003. |
| Subject: |
Serial murderers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Serial murders -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies. Mudgett, Herman W., 1861-1896. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) |
| Title: | The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xi, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic (1912) -- Frozen music (Chicago, 1890-1891) -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed (1894-5) Property of H.H. Holmes -- Epilogue, the last crossing. |
| Notes: | First Vintage Books edition, 2004. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-429) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0375725601 (pbk.) 9780375725609 (pbk.) 0609608444 (hardcover) |
| LCCN: | 2002154046 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|890493 |
| Bib No.: | 890493 |