Death in the dollhouse

bathroomIn the 1940s, Frances Glessner Lee constructed incredibly-detailed and spooky crime scenes in dollhouses to teach forensics to a homicide investigation seminar. The founder of Harvard's Department of Legal Medicine, Lee was named an honorary captain of the New Hampshire state police. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a book collecting Corrine May Botz's fantastic photographs of Lee's macabre miniatures.

Link to an online gallery of Botz's photos
Link to last week's NYT article about Lee
Link to the book on Amazon