A new novel profiles city planner Daniel Burnham and serial-murderer Henry H. Holmes during the 1893 World's Fair.
"Similarities fall away fast in the tale of architect Daniel Hudson Burnham and Henry H. Holmes, a physician-turned-serial-murderer who built his World's Fair Hotel - with such amenities as a dissection table, acid vats and 3,000-degree crematorium - in the shadow of Burnham's marvel, which came to be known as the White City... As chief architect, Burnham brought together such famed designers as Louis Sullivan and landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted. Holmes hired his own construction teams to build his 'hotel.'"
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