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Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook | 
 enlarge | Creator: Sean Tejaratchi
Publisher: Feral House
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 58944
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0922915296
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780922915293
ASIN: 0922915296
Publication Date: April 1, 2000
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Amazon.com Review
Warning: this sad, powerful, grotesque collection of black-and-white photos of mostly dead, often naked, human beings is not for the easily disturbed. The introductory text by Katherine Dunn (author of Geek Love) helps give a context to the macabre scrapbook, and the handwritten captions display irony and sometimes humor; but this is no antiquarian's sentimental portrait of the past. This book documents butchery and brutality, horrible disease and mental illness, suicide and murder. And as Dunn observes, the eye of the beholder is not innocent: "The old cop, like the old con, tries to trick us into forgiveness and complicity. By witnessing he has participated, by understanding he is culpable. And his real purpose is to disguise the truth--that he started out terrified and ended up liking it, fascinated, an aficionado."
Product Description
Based on a scrapbook collected by a homicide detective with the LAPD from the 1930s to the 1950s, this work recalls film noir-era crimes such as the "Black Dahlia Mystery" and the "Lipstick Murder," as well as on-site forensic photos, mug shots, and previously unreleased photos from such sensational cases as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Valentine's Day massacre.
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 Should be 0 stars December 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this book in the bookstore the other day and, from someone who is studying to be a forensic pathologist, this book is completely inappropriate and lacks any and all educational value. These victims did not authorize their pictures to be published and I would bet neither did their families. Although, that may not legally stop this author, it should have morally halted the publishing of this book. I agree with a review above that this is the equivalent (or worse) of rubbernecking to see mangled bodies in a car accident. The people in the car accident, as in this book, are friends and family of someone...what if they were yours? Would you want their pictures in a book like this?
Have respect for the deceased as you would hope someone would for you.
 Death & Destruction in black and white October 4, 2008
These are old-school scene-of-death photos from the 30's-50's collected by a former Los Angeles Homocide Detective. The guy had his own scrapbook.
All photos are in black & white and are very graphic. Most photos are of murder scenes. Some are suicides and accidents. A few are also of unusual physical diseases.
A lot of the photos were marked by the detective with a date and some type of identification. Most photos in this book are augmented with some kind of background info, however brief.
Gun-shot wounds, stabbings, strangulation, decapitations, and more. Hell, there is even a section of old police mug shots..boy, a lot of em are more horrible to look at than the death photos.
Obviously, this book is only for those interested in this kind of thing. If you are one of those interested, then this book is sure to please the "gore-hound" in you.
Straight ill. October 15, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well, I must say that this book is a gruesome one. I have a friend that is a doctor and gets to see stuff similar to the pictures in this book first hand. His background didn't help him much when flipping through the "kid" section in this book. The text rambles and really doesn't provide anything but page filler. This book would not make an acceptable coffee table read, but will cool you to the core if you're all alone and have an overactive imagination. Good luck with this one if you are even slightly a wuss.
Fascinating Portraits September 17, 2007
This book shows through the eyes of the author that nothing has really changed about the violence we do to each other and ourselves except maybe the methods. This was an exceptionally accurate glimpse into a time gone by and the unchanging human condition. The photos were excellently restored.
An extreme rarity. September 13, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is profoundly disturbing and not for the faint of heart or stomach. After first viewing some of these photos over 10 years ago, I lost the desire to eat food of any kind for almost a full 24 hours afterwards. Some of the most heinous murders pictured here were real headliners in their time - some cursory research on the internet reveals front-page coverage in the L.A. Times, particularly of the Virginia Lee Griffin murder, in which case the killer was executed in San Quentin a mere 4 months after sentencing. Makes you realize how no-nonsense the justice system was back in the 1940's. As the sub-title of the book succinctly states - "There were no 'good ol' days'". This book proves that nostalgia is largely a lie and, as Jesus Christ said, "The past is best forgotten."
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