Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences

Simple sentences

• He needed a new secretary.
• She had fallen in love.
• Holmes listened with moist eyes.

Compound sentences

• When Holmes next appeared, Mrs. Crowe asked him where Julia might be.
• Burnham now possessed formal authority to begin building a fair, but he still had no place to put it.
• He worked quickly, and soon the kiln was ready for its first test.

Complex sentences

• From the way he dressed and the money he gave Myrta, he certainly seemed like a man on the rise, and this perception went long way to ease the concerns of Myrta’s parents.
• Although no one set them down on paper, every women knew them and knew instantly when they were being broken.
• When his eyes settled back upon his captors, it was they who fled.

Alice, Howard and Nellie Pitzel

Alice, Nellie and Howard Pitzel were victims of H. H. Holmes. They were kids of Benjamin Pitzel who was also killed by Holmes.

Alice was the first kid who had joined Holmes to look for her father in Philadelphia. Later, Holmes will take Nellie and Howard from Mrs. Pitzel, convincing her that he wants all kids to join their father.

He traveled with them through America, until one day when all the kids disappeared.

Investigation showed that Holmes had killed Howard in small cottage in Irvington, Indianapolis, and Alice and Nellie had met their deaths at St. Vincent Street in Toronto.   

The Devil of the White city (exploring the connection of the theme of Death and one character)

How important were deaths of people that H. H. Holmes had killed comparing with the death of Root for Chicago city?
Do you think Holmes would be caught earlier if he killed someone who was rich and important for Chicago at that time?

The Devil in the White City

Right now, parts about H. H. Holmes life keep me reading this book. Probably, later on I would be more interested to find out more about city buildings that they are still here from that time.