That's Tinytown, Jake

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death present the work of Frances Glessner Lee, a dollhouse enthusiast and criminal investigator who created a series of tiny crime scenes as a study tool for detectives in the 40s. The book has painstakingly cataloged the miniatures, from the tell-tale cigarette butts in the tiny ashtray to the little love letters left by a killer to indicate a suicide. Author Corinne Botz offers solutions to some of the crimes but leaves most of the cases for the reader to decipher.

Doll forensics has come a long way since the 1940s, but some things never change. Most doll murderers know their victim, making cases like this one easy to solve , but there are crimes on the outer reaches of doll desecration that can send even the most hardened detective back to the Matchbox beat.