The Devil In The White City By H. Holmes

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This report is based on the book The Devil in the White City. This book was published by Crown Publishers in the year 2003 and has 396 pages. This book is about one of the first ever serial killers, H.H. Holmes, and murders he committed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

This book is about one of the first ever serial killers, H.H. Holmes, and the murders he committed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. My opinion on this book is I thought it was very boring, but very interesting at the same time. I thought it was very boring because most of the time it was talking about politics and how a lot of the buildings in Chicago were built and the struggles people went through to build it. When I heard that this book was about one of the first ever serial killers I thought this book was going to be great. But most of the time all it talked about was politics and the struggles people went through to build certain buildings that were very popular then. I thought it was very interesting because I loved reading about H.H. Holmes and what he did to be such a successful serial killer. …show more content…

Holmes arrives in Englewood, a suburb in Chicago. He is young, good looking, and his eyes are blue and hypnotic- a trait that is said that most murderers have. Holmes meets an elderly woman, Mrs. Holton, who owns a drug store and cares for her dying husband. He charms her, and offers to buy the store off of her. She says that she'll have to think about it, but in her head she is already accepting Holmes's

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