The devil in the White City. The story of the serial maniac Holmes. Larson E.

This is a classic documentary thriller about the first American serial killer acting under a pseudonym... Holmes.

Dr. Holmes did his gloomy affairs at the end of the 19th century, in Chicago, where he built the World Exhibition of 1893 His ominous hotel (among the people he was nicknamed the "castle") with labyrinths and windows without windows. Later, an inspection of the basement of this house was shocked even by experienced police officers and cynical reporters: a personal crematorium, a table for vivisections, many guns of torture and the remains of dozens of missing tourists...

Holmes was so cunning that only chance brought detectives to his track. How did the police find a maniac recognized as the first in the history of the United States by a serial killer, and what terrible secrets does his past keep?