Derek Cook’s Reviews > The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America > Status Update

Best to catch them at the start of their ascent toward freedom, in transit from small places, when they were anonymous, lost, their presence recorded nowhere. Every day he saw them stepping from trains and grip-cars and hansom cabs, inevitably frowning at some piece of paper that was supposed to tell them where they belonged.