{"id":1795,"date":"2014-12-04T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2014-12-04T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:00:56","slug":"my-review-of-beast-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"My Review of Beast of Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Or, My Thoughts On The Illustrated Case Of H.H. Holmes<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1561633658\/?tag=annabnwor-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1796 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/beast-of-chicago.jpg\" alt=\"beast of chicago\" width=\"182\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually, I restrict myself to unsolved murder cases from history, but reading about Jack the Ripper led me to the horrific crimes of H.H. Holmes. Maybe I was so interested because we still know so little about his crimes, even how many people (mostly women)\u00a0he actually killed in his &#8220;castle.&#8221; The fact that this upstanding businessman had a castle full of torture chambers is astonishing in itself.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Geary&#8217;s illustrated casebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1561633658\/?tag=annabnwor-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Beast of Chicago: the Murderous Career of H.H. Holmes<\/a>, is a wonderful introduction to the subject, and I feel like I don&#8217;t need to read anymore about this man. The book gives all the pertinent information and accompanies it with incredibly detailed line drawings, from Holmes&#8217; little known childhood to his execution. It&#8217;s a quick read. I read it in one sitting. I was also relieved the drawings aren&#8217;t too gory. No detailed sketches of torture or the bodies found, which I was glad for since some of his victims were children.<\/p>\n<p>Geary&#8217;s volume is a wonderful mash-up of a true crime paperback\u00a0and a graphic novel. I will be looking for the other books\u00a0in his Treasury of Victorian Murder series.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;3 Anna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, My Thoughts On The Illustrated Case Of H.H. Holmes Usually, I restrict myself to unsolved murder cases from history, but reading about Jack the Ripper led me to the horrific crimes of H.H. Holmes. Maybe I was so interested because we still know so little about his crimes, even how many people (mostly women)\u00a0he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[264],"tags":[443,579,442,441],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-beast-of-chicago","tag-book-review","tag-hh-holmes","tag-rick-geary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Wkl2-sX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}