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Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's most outstanding memorial grounds. It's like a little town with a private lake and mausoleums lining its streets. The funerary architecture is spectacular. Here lie Chicago's deceased: baseball players, boxers, ballerinas, fire victims, detectives, politicians, department store owners and inventors. They passed through nature and on to eternity but not without a pawky connection to Sherlock Holmes.
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Graceland Cemetery in Chicago - Brenda Rossini
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago
A Sherlockian Walk Midst the Tombstones
Author and tour guide
Brenda Rossini
First edition published in 2014
This digital edition published in 2017 by
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© Copyright 2014, 2017 Brenda Rossini
The right of Brenda Rossini to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.
All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without express prior written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted except with express prior written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damage.
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not of MX Publishing.
Cover design by Brian Belanger
To My Sherlockian Friends Past and Present
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
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GRACELAND: founded in 1860 upon 80 acres. Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris is 110 Acres. Graceland was built outside of the city because the Chicago Fire Dept. had health and safety concerns about shallow graves and cholera affecting water supply.
To the east, along the cemetery, the El train was erected, going south and north,
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