Andrew Fischer’s Reviews > The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America > Status Update

The rhythm of this book is unironically “Holmes never killed face to face, but he liked the proximity. He preferred to be just close enough to hear the panic set in and the fearful final moments” followed by “anyway, they still couldn’t get that darn Ferris Wheel to work but Chicago was a shit hole so they were impressed by the clean bathrooms”

If you were wondering how long it takes to get to the opening of the World’s Fair, this long.

Bit of a slow burn so far, but so was Killers of the Flower Moon so I can be patient. The build-up of H.H. Holmes is interesting but I kinda don’t care about how the architect of the Chicago World’s Fair decided which contractor he liked best