Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who,...

"While attending the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Winnifred Wylde believes she witnessed a woman being kidnapped. She tries to convince her father, an inspector with the Chicago police, to look into reports of mysterious disappearances around the White City. Inspector Wylde tries to dismiss her claims as exaggeration of an overactive imagination, but he eventually concedes to letting her go undercover as secretary to the man in question--if she takes...

The story behind America's first serial killer, Herman W. Mudgett (a.k.a. H. H. Holmes), who terrorized Chicago during the turn-of-the-century World's Fair. Chronicles his grisly life from childhood, to the cross-country manhunt to find him, and finally to his incarceration and execution.

"Torture chambers, acid vats, secret passageways. At the height of his criminal career, the infamous Dr. H.H. Holmes designed his castle of horrors in Chicago, where he rented rooms to unsuspecting victims visiting the 1893 World's Fair. Further benefiting from his victims, Holmes sold their skeletons to local medical schools"--Back cover.

In the world of evil and deranged serial killers, there is no equal. Meet the Dark Lord of the Murder Castle who killed roughly 200 people in a self-made house of horrors; and who also may have been the notorious Jack the Ripper. He presided over the "murder castle", a devilish architectural creation in downtown Chicago made specifically to murder people. Trap doors, chutes, false doors, hidden passageways and spy holes made the Murder Castle the...

In this first omnibus volume from Geary's increasing storied Treasuries of Murder: The trilogy of murders from the Victorian Age that made up the very first volume of this series ; "Jack the Ripper" as only Geary can narrate it with his slightly ghoulish sense of irony ; "The Fatal Bullet" about the assassination of President James Garfield ; and "The Beast of Chicago" about H.H. Holmes, possibly the first series murderer with chilling methodical...