Yet another book

Some time ago NewMexiKen began Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, but then set it aside about half-way through. I finished it today, probably one of the last last people in America to read it.

But if you haven’t read it, and you like your history laced with serial killers, then I urge you to pick it up. Subtitled Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Larson tells the story of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the mad doctor, serial killer than operated on its fringes. Fascinating reading.

(That’s two-and-a-half books in three days.)