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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:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 57484
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 5.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0922915296
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780922915293
ASIN: 0922915296
Publication Date: April 1, 2000
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Product Description
The strange and gruesome crime-scene snapshot collection of LAPD detective Jack Huddleston spans Southern California in its noir heyday. Death Scenes is the noted forerunner of several copycat titles.
Amazon.com
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."
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 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
2 out of 2 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."
 Yikes!!! April 22, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Book is not for the faint of heart! I knew Sean Tejaratchi when he was a teen at his mother's house in Walker Basin so I just had to have a copy. Well Sean you still are marching to a different drummer! Best wishes.
 Stomach churning........... January 23, 2007
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
I did not buy this book, but morbid curiosity DID get the better of me and so I stood in the aisle and paged through quite a bit of it. I wish I had not done that. When I decided I'd had all I could take, I could not get the book out of my hands fast enough. I even went to the magazine section of the bookstore to leaf through those cheesy celebrity rags, just to see pictures of smiling, beautiful, healthy people who were impeccably groomed and dressed. The contrast to what I had just seen was startling, and made Death Scenes all the more depressing. I stayed a bit depressed, and thought about the graphic images many times in the days that followed. Bottom line: If you want to see pictures that will make you think that the "good old days" were the most horrific, sickening, pathetic days in history, this is the book for you. I'll give the book two stars because it certainly does what it intends, but I just can't give it any more than that....I am STILL having trouble eating!!!
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