| Description |
xv, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-328) and index. |
| Contents |
Legal medicine -- The sunny street of the sifted few -- Marriage and the aftermath -- The crime doctor -- Kindred spirits -- The medial school -- The three-legged stool -- Captain Lee -- In a nutshell -- Murder at Harvard -- The decline and falls -- Postmortem. |
| Summary |
"Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair, a blood-spattered comforter. And then, of course, there are the bodies-splayed out on the floor, draped over chairs-clothed in garments that Lee lovingly knit with sewing pins. Lee developed a system that used the Nutshells dioramas to train law enforcement officers to investigate violent crimes, and her methods are still used today. 18 Tiny Deaths is the story of a woman who overcame the limitations and expectations imposed by her social status and pushed forward an entirely new branch of science that we still use today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962.
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Forensic scientists -- United States -- Biography.
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Forensic sciences -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Crime scenes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Criminal investigation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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TRUE CRIME / Forensics.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
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Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962. (OCoLC)fst00466742
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Crime scenes. (OCoLC)fst00883101
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Criminal investigation. (OCoLC)fst00883201
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Forensic sciences. (OCoLC)fst00932011
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Forensic scientists. (OCoLC)fst00932020
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Biographies.
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Women forensic scientists -- Biography.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Melinek, Judy, writer of introduction.
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| Added Title |
Eighteen tiny deaths |
| ISBN |
9781492680475 (hardcover) |
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1492680478 (hardcover) |
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