Friday, June 10, 2011

Francis Glessner Lee


I've been reading "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death," about Francis Glessner Lee and her weird, remarkable crime scene dioramas which she constructed in the 1940s to instruct police on crime scene investigation. The book's images of the dioramas are fantastic, though the text completely shies away from physical analysis of clues Lee meticulously arranged in her scenes and stays, rather uninformatively, in the realm of literary criticism. A somewhat more interesting treatment is to be found in this article by Katherine Ramsland.

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