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Erik Larson
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A couple of weeks ago, while browsing the shelves of a used-book store here in Paris, I came across a detective novel by Andrea Camilleri, called The Snack Thief. One of my daughters, a State Department expert on international crime who is fluent in Italian and very good at Italian cooking, was with me, and recommended it. (She, of course, had read it in Italian.) I loved it, and totally fell f...
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"The author of The Devil in the White City takes on history's worst villains with In the Garden of Beasts, his new nonfiction opus about the Nazi ascendance in 1933 Berlin." ...More
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“It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
“I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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