Larson’s best-selling book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is set in Chicago at the end of the 19th century and focuses on World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and serial killer H.H. Holmes.

Because of this, Martin Scorsese relied on Robert De Niro for years. Their relationship was as perfect as crushing a tomato into a paste, mixing it with high-fructose corn syrup, and spreading it across assorted meat parts in a thin casing.

After 15 years of aborted attempts to make a movie about America's first prolific serial killer, it appears Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are finally moving forward with an adaptation of Erik Larson's book The Devil in the White City.