A review by deanna_rigney
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

4.0

This read like fiction, yet was dense with all kinds of little nuggets of history I just found fascinating. You have everything here: a serial killer, a ferris wheel, Annie Oakley, the Titanic, architecture, and a "Murder Castle." Some of the intricacies of putting every aspect of the Chicago fair together did leave me a bit cold, but the story of H.H. Holmes was freakish, and therefore too interesting to put down. This sooo needs to be a movie because of the turn of the century visuals and the creepiness factor, but I fear someone would screw it up because rarely are books made into movies that do the book itself justice. If someone could do it though I would definitely want to see it.