Chicago, 1893. One man built a heaven on earth. Another built hell beside it.
Erik Larson is a prize-winning journalist and No.1 bestselling author of Isaac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, In the Garden of Beasts and in 2015, Dead Wake - about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. He lives in Seattle with his family.
Fuses history and entertainment to give the dramatic effect of a
novel...this truth really is stranger than fiction
*The New York Times*
Erik Larson tracks [H H Holmes] with practised journalistic
skill...Highly readable
*Sunday Telegraph*
Captures the spirit of an America bursting with pioneering
drive...a gripping book
*Independent on Sunday*
An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling,
sleep defying fiction
*Time Out*
Bursting with so much vitality you half expect it to jump right out
of your hands
*Yorkshire Evening Post*
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