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World Fair In Of Itself By H. Holmes

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A Non-fiction, that takes place deep in one of America's most crime-ridden city of Chicago, during the making of the World Fair in the 1880's-1890s. And how a serial killer, Herman W. Mudgett aka H.H Holmes a man with an inexhaustible lust for death used the fair to carry out some of the most heinous crimes under the nose of the World. Section B: The book in of itself was not necessarily made around a theme as much as it was created to tell the story of one of the greatest fairs that the world had ever seen while showcasing some of the brutal murders and frauds committed by H.H. Holmes. While the book does incorporate the use of BAGPIPE, it tended to lean more in the direction of only using specific few of our course themes. The ones

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