This was a huge challenge for me to finish. I listened to it on audio and felt like I wanted to stab out my ear drums with a sharp pencil. I was bored to death! If you are interested in reading 5938902 pages about architecture or how a fair is built in the late 1800's this book is for you! Personally, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Are there unfortunate souls in the world who have to study historical architecture? What torture! This book did have a murder mystery mixed in, but it wasn't enough to redeem it from the hundreds of pages of tedious boring details. The buildings at the fair were painted white. <-- The book mentioned this fact about 20 times. The buildings were white. I got it. Dr. Holmes married a lot of women.. .and killed a lot of them too. 
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