The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson · 2003
The 1893 World's Fair and a serial killer, woven together. Larson writes nonfiction that reads like fiction.
The case against
Two books share one cover here, and they never shake hands. Burnham's fair and Holmes's murders alternate chapters without meaningfully touching; the connective tissue is a city and a year. Larson's novelistic texture rests on reconstruction, with thoughts and weather supplied where sources go silent, and the Holmes strand runs on lurid speculation. Most readers skim one half to reach the other.
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