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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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,...