Nothing was gained by keeping the reading in the dark about that, just say it.
Eventually it was revealed that he was George Ferris and his giant wheel was the first Ferris Wheel. Eventually it came out the guy wanted to make a giant wheel but we still don’t know the guy. He kept sticking it to it and trying, and still not telling us who or what.
There was a guy, who had an idea, but he didn’t tell you who or what, and that idea was rejected. Some things can just come out and be said, for example, and a very vague and general one. If I had a gripe, which is actually very minor, but the author relied too heavily on suspense when it wasn’t needed. Very interesting story of the Chicago’s world fair, intertwined with the serial killer H.H. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B.
What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds₇a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America₂s rush toward the twentieth century.
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