Hopefully, the movie (being brought to the screen by Leonardio DiCaprio) will combine the atmosphere of Ragtime with the historical prototype of Hannibal Lecter in the person of H H Holmes.
(Arguably, the other Lecter prototype would be Holmes' contemporary, Jack the Ripper.)
Have we talked about this before? I thought “White City” was
one of the most fascinating books I have read. I had a step
daughter at the U of Chicago while reading it and we tried
to retrace a lot of the book. Some of the campus is built on
the fair site.