18 tiny deaths the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention 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...
| Main Author: | Goldfarb, Bruce (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Naperville, Illinois :
Sourcebooks,
[2020]
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Table of 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.