Full name: H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil

Author: Adam Selzer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781510713437 1510713433

H.H. Holmes: How a Murderer Became a Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America’s great super villains, revealing not only the true story, but how the legend evolved. Hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles and records that have been buried in archives for over a century.Though Holmes has become just as famous now as he was in 1895, a deep analysis of contemporary materials make very clear how much of the story as we know it came from reporters who were nowhere near the action, a dangerously unqualified new police chief, and, not least, from lies invented by Holmes himself. Tons of stunning new data about Holmes, his background, his era, and the wild cast of characters who circulated in and about the famous “castle’ building.There has never been a particularly accurate book on Holmes - those published to date have relied heavily on pulp re-tellings of his story from the 1940s.Exhaustively researched and painstakingly brought to life. Similar books: Lady Killers by Tori Telfer Hell's Princess by Harold Schechter Psycho USA by Harold Schechter The Man from the Train by Bill James The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth Fiend by Harold Schechter Lost Girls by Robert Kolker Bestial by Harold Schechter The Devil's Gentleman by Harold Schechter The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden The Evil That Men Do by Stephen G. Michaud The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert K. Ressler The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins