18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Written by:
Bruce Goldfarb
Narrated by:
Nan Mcnamara

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
6
Narrator
3
Release Date
February 2020
Duration
8 hours 36 minutes
Summary
The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics...
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 dollhouses that appear charming?until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair, or 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.
18 Tiny Deaths, by official biographer Bruce Goldfarb, delves into Lee's journey from grandmother without a college degree to leading the scientific investigation of unexpected death out of the dark confines of centuries-old techniques and into the light of the modern day.
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 transports the reader back in time and tells the story of how one woman, who should never have even been allowed into the classrooms she ended up teaching in, changed the face of science forever.
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Marian K.

The most boring book I’ve ever read. I didn’t even get through it although I tried since I paid for it I couldn’t believe it Was so boring. I was expecting more forensics, not a history of Harvard and the life story of a rich woman who wanted to give her money away. I wish I had never bought this book it’s a click bait for sure Awful. I wasted 5 hours of my life.

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