· The main characters of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair novel are Daniel Burnham, H.H. Holmes. The book has been awarded with International Horror Guild Award for Nonfiction (), Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee () and many others. H H Holmes Last Words. · The main characters of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair novel are Daniel Burnham, H.H. Holmes. The book has been awarded with International Horror Guild Award for Nonfiction (), Book Sense Book of . · David Grann. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. New York: Doubleday, pages. Great non-fiction is just as suspenseful and revealing of the human condition as great fiction. With The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, David Grann gives the reader twelve intriguing pieces of great non-fiction.
Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism. Whether he's reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed skiff with a scientist hunting the elusive. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession comes from the pen of David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z. I had really enjoyed this true life tale of swashbuckling adventure in the Amazon so I was pleased to receive an ARC copy of his newest book. Good to know THE LOST CITY OF Z was no fluke! David Grann's follow-up, THE DEVIL AND SHERLOCK HOLMES: TALES OF MURDER, MADNESS, AND OBSESSION, may be a compilation of previously published articles, but damn, what articles!Fans of creative nonfiction will be pleased a dozen times over. It begins with "Mysterious Circumstances," a real-life whodunit involving the death of Richard Lancelyn.
The main characters of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair novel are Daniel Burnham, H.H. Holmes. The book has been awarded with International Horror Guild Award for Nonfiction (), Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee () and many others. 'The Devil and Sherlock Holmes' includes articles about a man's obsession with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes; a Texas man who was executed despite being very likely innocent; a French con man would was a serial child impersonator; the only surviving firefighter of a station's crew during 9/11 but can't remember any of it; searching for the elusive giant squid; building New York City's underground water tunnels; a lifelong bank robber who was still at it when he was 78 years old. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession () is a collection of 12 essays by American journalist David Grann.
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