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Some say he was Jack the Ripper, but Herman W. Mudgett, alias Dr. H. H. Holmes, was far too busy piling up corpses on this side of the Atlantic to have ever traveled abroad. The basement of his infamous Chicago "Castle" (which The Chicago Times described as a "murder factory") boasted a... read more

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This book is in True Crime: Murder For Profit. (community list)

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  1. Judy Miller Snavely (Author)

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Reading Level: Young Adults

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