Talk:The Devil in the White City/Archive 1

Discussion
Copyright violation - Plot summary is a cut and paste of the publishers PR. Tarpy 21:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


 * And you didn't remove it....why? I removed the copyvio text. NickBurns 21:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Content removed
Hi, I removed the text "H.H. Holmes was also a resident in the Southside of Chicago." Needs verified. Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 23:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, it is a major part of the book that Holmes lived in Englewood, a neighborhood on Chicago's south side, and so this is an uncontroversial claim. But I agree that it should be excised -- as it was, it was oddly located in the article, apropos of nothing in particular, and does not significantly fill out the content of the page. JayFout 08:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:49, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Benjamin Pietzel
The writer has spelled the name inconsistently throughout. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.221.100 (talk) 05:10, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * In his book The Devil in the White City, author Erik Larson spells the name as "Pitezel".  I shall make the changes to the article so that the name is spelled consistently throughout.  Thanks.   (Joseph Spadaro (talk) 19:50, 24 November 2009 (UTC))

"bringing chicago to vivid life..
seems like editorializing, unless you can find a source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.134.245 (talk) 00:14, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Usage in Television
In Season 6A Episode 10 of The Sopranos, "Moe n' Joe", Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski is reading this book in a particular scene. I'm new to editing Wikipedia Pages so I don't know how to make a section for it, what to call it, or if people even consider this relevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.114.130 (talk) 04:14, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Reception and sales info
It would be good to have some reviews in RS and information about sales.Martinlc (talk) 21:06, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

This article needs a section on Reviews of the book, to provide evidence of its notability and why it is appropriate as a topic in Wikipedia.

There is a confusion between the opening sentence in the lead and the infobox: the former says it history non-fiction (non-fiction would suffice) while the latter says is historical fiction. Only one can be correct. Having a section on Reviews of the book would support which of these designations is accurate. —Prairieplant (talk) 02:22, 3 June 2018 (UTC) Prairieplant (talk) 02:22, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

In addition to Prairieplant's comment, I take issue with saying that the book is "presented in a novelistic style". Unless I can find a comment or interview from the publisher or author that pushes the book as such, this is at best an opinion. Its frequent digressions into the details of architecture and other subjects would be extremely strange to come across in a novel. As of right now, my gut feeling is to omit that bit from the opening. AlephOfAmr (talk) 14:28, 12 July 2018 (UTC)