The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Part III, Chapter 14 Summary

Claustrophobia

  • Holmes shows Anna around the hotel, and she's impressed.
  • He asks her if she wouldn't mind going into his walk-in vault to retrieve a document for him. Nothing spooky about that, right?
  • Cheerfully, she complies. Quickly, Holmes follows.
  • The door closes, but Anna think's it's an accident. She pounds on the door. Nothing.
  • Alone inside the dark room, Anna finds the air getting thinner.
  • "The panic came, as it always did" (3.14.10).
  • Holmes listens to Anna's pleadings fade to silence.
  • He then goes to Minnie's apartment and tells her to come to the castle where Anna is waiting.
  • We can only imagine what happens next.
  • Holmes has a large trunk sent to Chappell, and delivers a collection of fine women's dresses to Pitezel's wife Carrie. He says they belonged to his cousin, Miss Minnie Williams.