The Devil in the White City is a memoir by Erik Larson. He is an American journalist and also the writer of nonfiction books. The Splendid and the Vile is another worth mentioning book by the author and so is Dead Wake.
The narration of The Devil in the White City is done by Scott Brick and he handled that task quite brilliantly.
A couple of men embodied a significant element of great dynamic and scale that defined the rush of America towards the 20th century. Daniel Hudson was the architect who was the brilliant director of fair’s works and also the constructor of many considerable structures in the country. Those also include New York’s Flatiron Building and Washington’s Union Station.
The other man was Henry H. Holmes, a murderer, and your doctor, He built the World’s Fair Hotel in the parody of White City which was located just west of the fairgrounds. It was a torture palace that was complete with a gas chamber, dissection, and a crematorium offering 3,000 degrees of temperature.
The Devil in the White City became a bestseller and it won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the 2004 Crime category. It is an immensely engrossing story of private and public events.
Burnham went on to overcome some great tragedies and obstacles just as he organized the great talents of Charles McKim, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan, and several others to completely transform the damp Jackson Park. In the meanwhile, Holmes used all the attraction of the great fair and his very own satanic kind of charms as well for luring a good count of the young women to deaths.
