Oh, You Beautiful Doll

A coworker said it best: There aren't many books that can appeal to both the doll collector and the true crime enthusiast. But we've got the book that straddles that line. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a collection of photographs of crime scenes, reconstructed using dolls.

The creepy/compelling scenes are the work of Frances Glessner Lee, who helped found the nation’s first department of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School and who made the dioramas based on actual crime reports. (Lee is also rumored to have been the inspiration for the protagonist in Murder, She Wrote.) You can read more about Lee here.





We've got several copies of this book, but hurry in. They won't be here long. Meanwhile, you can see more pictures of Lee's dolls and dioramas here.--David E