American journalist Erik Larson takes a behind-the-scenes look at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the serial killer it attracted.

In late 19th-century Chicago, architect Daniel H. Burnham thought of nothing but building the most ambitious site in World's Fair history.

Nearby, Dr. H. H. Holmes was at work on another extraordinary project, born of pure evil.

Author and journalist Erik Larson has earned the Edgar Award, as well as the attention of Hollywood producers, for his hard-hitting true crime writing.

In The Devil in the White City, Larson offers an intimate glimpse into the Herculean work required to pull off the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, while investigating the dark mind of a serial killer.

Though the book is written to feel like a work of narrative fiction, every piece of dialogue is taken from either a letter, memoir, or another historical document of the time.