Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dubbed the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" by their creator Mrs. Frances G. Lee of Littleton, New Hampshire, they correspond in their purpose to the Pitman forest models which show a New England hillside undergoing contour and seasonal changes. Each setting depicts the scene of the tragedy as it would appear just before the medical examiner or policeman might arrive. Accompanying the model is such information as a detective might have obtained by interrogation up to the time he walked in the door...
...models are Mrs. Lee's latest step to improve the study of legal medicine in the University. Previously she has established a valuable library of legal medicine in memory of George B. Magrath '94, and the Francis Glessner Lee Professorship of legal Medicine, a chair now held by Dr. Alan R. Moritz
...form of detective story originated by Poe and Conan Doyle still exists today in the U.S., side by side with a distinctively American genre originated by Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man). Craig Rice is virtually the only woman of this school-with the possible exception of Gypsy Rose Lee, with whom Craig lived one summer in Connecticut while she was writing Mother Finds a Body and Having Wonderful Crime...
Practically speaking, no one goes over 20,000. The few who do so regularly are authors who draw on the non-detective-story audience: such exceptions as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dorothy Sayers, and of course Gypsy Rose Lee (whose G-String Murders sold nearly 30,000 copies...
Fortnight ago, before an assemblage of publishers and authors in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Robert de Graff, president of Pocket Books, presented Gertrudes to Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) for New Adventures of Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett for The Thin Man, to Thorne Smith posthumously (the prize was accepted by his two daughters) for Topper, to Max Brand posthumously for Singing Guns (a western), to Damon Runyon for Best of Damon Runyon and Damon Runyon's Favorites, and to Shirley Cunningham for The Pocket Entertainer (popular with troops...