Molasses Murder in a Nutshell - Mcnamara, Frances

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Résumé :
In January 1919 tank bursts in Boston's North End, flooding the neighborhood with molasses. When a woman is found murdered in the wreckage, Frances Glessner Lee asks her old friend, medical examiner Dr. George Magrath to help exonerate a young serviceman. He's a resident at the home for returning soldiers on Beacon Hill that Fanny has come from Chicago to manage. Frustrated by her lack of education and skills, she wants to clear the young man's name and find the killer. Will creation of a miniature crime scene lead to the truth? It's the best she can do. This is the first in a series of fictional stories roughly based on the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Over twenty miniature crime scenes were used from the 1940s to the present to train police detectives. Set in the 1920s, these stories imagine Frances Glessner Lee working with Dr. George Magrath to learn about legal medicine as forensic science was known at the time. Working with Magrath provided the foundation for the miniatures for which Frances Glessner Lee has become known as the Mother of Forensic Science. ...

Biographie:
Frances McNamar?is the author of the?Nutshell Murder Mystery series?featuring Mother of Forensic Science Frances Glessner Lee. The first in the series?Molasses Murder in a Nutshell?was released in 2023. Book 2?Three-Decker Murder in a Nutshell?was released in 2024.? Book 3?Joy Street Jail Murder in a Nutshell?will be released in 2025. She is also author of?The Emily Cabot Mysteries?about a social activist in Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Frances is a member of Sisters in Crime New England and active in MWA New England.?Death in a Time of Spanish Flu,?book 9 of the series,?was released in 2022. Frances grew up in Boston, where her father served as Police Commissioner for ten years. She has degrees from Mount Holyoke and Simmons Colleges, and is retired from the University of Chicago. She now divides her time between Boston and Cape Cod....