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The Devil in the White City
''The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America'' (Crown Publishers, ISBN 0-609-60844-4) is a 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. The book is based on real characters and events. Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights in 2010.〔("Leonardo DiCaprio secures rights to book of first serial killer in the US" ), ''The Guardian'' newspaper (November 2, 2010). Accessed Nov. 2, 2010.〕
The book is set in Chicago, circa 1893, intertwining the true tales of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, the serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle."
== Burnham and the architects ==
* Daniel Burnham: the chief architect behind the World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair)
* John Root: Burnham's partner
* Charles B. Atwood: Burnham's head of design after Root's death
* George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.: creator of the Ferris wheel
* Frank Millet
* Louis Sullivan
* Richard Morris Hunt
* Charles McKim
* Frederick Law Olmsted (designer of New York City's Central Park): landscape architect in charge of the World's Fair landscape.
* George B. Post
* Sophia Hayden Bennett
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