The Torture DoctorHawthorn Books, 1975 - 231 pages Herman W. Mudgett, alias Henry H. Holmes, became known as the "Monster of Sixty-Third Street" after using his rooming house ("Holmes Castle") to lure at least 26 visitors of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to their deaths. |
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