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NUTSHELL STUDIES OF UNEXPLAINED DEATH "This fascinating and macabre volume offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s she built dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases in order to train detectives to assess visual evidence. Still used in forensic training today, the eighteen Nutshell dioramas, on a scale of 1:12, display an astounding level of detail: tiny pencils write, window shades move, whistles blow, and clues to the crime scene are revealed to those who study them carefully. Corrine Botz's lush color photographs lure viewers into every crevice of Frances Lee's models and breathe life into these deadly miniatures, which represent the dark side of domestic life, unveiling tales of prostitution, alcoholism and adultry. Botz's introductory essay, which draws on archival research and interviews with Lee's family and police colleagues, present a captivating portrait of the creator of these amazing miniatures." |
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COMPILATION "Meatcake Compilation samples some of the best from the first seven issues of the long out of print Meatcake comics, and really isn't like anything else I've ever seen. Dame Darcy has a very Edward Gorey-inspired style, which fits with the plethora of creepy-funny characters she creates, including siamese twins Perfidia (a two-faced bitch) and Hindrance (a hinderance to Perfidia), and Strega Pez, a woman who speaks through pez candy which pop out of the bloody slit in her throat. The front endpaper gives you a sneak peak to what's to come: it shows in detailed pen and ink a scene of pretty young Edwardian women digging up and dissecting a corpse. The fairy-tale like stories are peppered with murder, madness... and humor. Dame Darcy says of her work: 'I pictured them living in a little town by the sea, where magic is logic, mermaids and siamese twins are just as normal as other girls, and everyone has endless reasons to be dripping or drinking delicious black blood in every issue.' It's really something every fan of the Victorian morbid should check out." - Melissa |
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