Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Contributor(s): Larson, Erik (Author)

ISBN: 9781410455765

Publisher: Thorndike Press

Hardcover

$32.99

Pub Date: March 18, 2013

Dewey: 364.1523092

LCCN: 2012043414

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Large Print, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.40" H x 8.60" L x 5.60" W ( 1.60 lbs) 691 pages

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Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Peer Picks

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Quiz #:0000106685 ( Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America)

Reading level: 9.20

Interest level: UG

Point value: 23.0

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Description: "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"--page 4 of cover.

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