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Originally Posted by 8 Ball
Interesting, whats the name of the book.
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While I'm not sure of the exact book he is referring to, it more than likely has to do with H.H. Holmes, a serial killer in Chicago at the end of the 1800's
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Herman Webster Mudgett aka Dr. H. H. Holmes: a serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Dr. Holmes had built his "World's Fair Hotel" complete with a gas chamber, dissection table and a crematorium to dispose of the bodies. Holmes would remove the skeletons of his victims and sell them for medical and scientific study.
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There is a very good non fiction book about him and the entire 1893 Chicago World's Fair called "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson, and supposedly they are working on a movie adaptation.
There is also a fictionalized version that apparently is fairly fact based, "The Scarlet Mansion" by Allan W. Eckert.