<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 609 - 60844 - 4 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 54397544 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Crown Publishers, ISBN 0 - 609 - 60844 - 4) is a 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style . The book is based on real characters and events . Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights in 2010 . </P> <P> The book is set in Chicago in 1893, intertwining the true tales of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, the serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle". </P>

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