The Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson

Much later Belknap realized why Holmes had wanted so badly to show him the building’s roof. “If I’d gone,” Belknap said, “the forgery probably wouldn’t have been discovered, because I wouldn’t have been around to discover it. “But I didn’t go,” he said. “I’m afraid of heights.”

The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.

him, as if boats alone would determine the success of his quest for “poetic mystery.”