About this title

Storyline

The book is set in Chicago in 1893, interweaving the true tales of Daniel Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle". The Devil in the White City is divided into four parts, the first three happening in Chicago between 1890 and 1893, while part four of the book takes place in Philadelphia circa 1895. The story of Daniel Burnham, his building of the fair, and the struggles he overcomes forms one plot line. The other, a vivid and very different plot line, is that of H. H. Holmes, a mentally unstable pharmacist/doctor who forms a plan to use an abandoned lot across the street from his pharmacy to lure and kill multiple victims.

Country: United States

Type: scripted

Language: English

Also Known As: The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America, FerrariДьявол в белом городе, The Devil in the White City |  See more »

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Company Credits

Production Co: ABC Signature, Appian Way, Paramount Television, Sikelia Productions

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

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