The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America.

LARSON, Erik.

Item Number: 139508

New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.

First edition of the author’s best-selling novel, a “vivid history of the glittering Chicago World’s fair and its dark side” (New York Magazine). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by Erik Larson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman. Author photograph by Roseanne Olson.

In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, author of Isaac's Storm, tells the spellbinding true story of two men, an architect and a serial killer, whose fates were linked by the greatest fair in American history: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893, nicknamed "The White City." "An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep-defying fiction" (Time Out New York). "Exceedingly well-documented, exhaustive without being excessive, and utterly fascinating" (Chicago Tribune).