Adam Selzer
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Language
English
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Description
America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, now updated with a new afterword discussing Holmes' exhumation on American Ripper.
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story...
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story...
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Popularized in the bestselling book The Devil in the White City, H. H. Holmes has gone down in history as America's first—and possibly most prolific—serial killer. A master swindler who changed names about as often as most people change coats, Holmes built a three-story building down the street from the World's Fair site in Chicago in the early 1890s.
Join Chicago paranormal authority Adam Selzer as he separates the truth behind the
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
326 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Improve your historical knowledge with this witty and efficient presentation of pivotal themes and events such as the American Revolution, Civil War, and civil rights movement. This clever and informative work follows a chronological arrangement from early exploration to the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009.
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English
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A historian shares strange-but-true stories of the city and its unsolved mysteries, from the nineteenth century to today.
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City's quirks and oddities, comes a compelling anthology of forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to the modern day. Among many other topics, he explores what really started the great Chicago fire; who was the first "automobile murderer;" the identity of the Tylenol...
5) H.H. Holmes
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Language
English
Description
This is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of the murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story but how the legend evolved, taking advantage of hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles, and records that have been buried in archives for more than a century. Although Holmes is just as famous now as he...
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Language
English
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Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U. S. Film Industry tells the fascinating but too little known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of film production in America in the years prior to the rise of Hollywood (1907--1913). As entertaining as it is informative, the book straddles the worlds of academia and popular non-fiction alike in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent...