The Devil in the White City, Erik LarsonPrologueThe prologue begins aboard the Olympic following a man named Daniel Burnham on April 4 1912. Burnham suffers from severe foot pain. Burnham attempts to send a message to his friend Millet who is on board the Titanic, but the message was not allowed to be sent. Burnham thinks back to the fair and remembers the people who helped at the fair and thinks of those who are still alive from the fair. Part 1 The first chapter introduces Chicago, in the 1800s, as a place where flocks of single women come to Chicago to look for jobs. This city has been described as very dangerous. On average, two people a day died at crossings, illnesses were very common, and people died daily from fires. At the end of the chapter, a man named H.H. Holmes or known as Herman Mudgett as his birth name is introduced. The author begins to describe scenes where Chicago is in the running to host the American Science Fair. People wait outside the Chicago Tribune for news from the winning city. An architectural firm Burnham and Root is also featured. The story moves from the scene outside the grandstand to flashbacks of Burnham and Root's lives as architects. The city of Chicago, upon learning that it had won, created the World's Columbian Exposition Company to develop the fair. After Chicago won the competition to host the fair, Burnham searched for potential sites in Chicago that would be good places to host the fair. He asked his friend Ellsworth to go to Maine to ask Olmstead, a landscape architect, to come help him design the fair. He accepts and brings in a member of his company, Codman, to assist him. Patrick Prendergast is introduced in the middle of a paper......much evidence in the hotel concludes that Holmes murdered many people. As the investigation continues, the hotel burns to the ground, destroying all evidence. Geyer finally finds Howard's remains in Irvington, along with evidence and witnesses that Holmes was the killer. Holmes was finally indicted in 1895 in several cities for murder.EpilogueThe fair was a source of inspiration for many like Frank Lloyd Wright. Lois Sullivan, one of the architects of the fair, declines from alcohol. Burham's health also deteriorated. Holmes was tried in Philadelphia where he was sentenced to death. Holmes admitted to killing several people. Holmes asks that he be put in his coffin with cement. Burnham is aboard the Olympic and discovers what happened to the Titanic and learns that Millet is dead. Burnham died forty-seven days later.