“The purpose of a forensic investigation is said to be ‘convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.’”

JOY STREET JAIL MURDER IN A NUTSHELL  third in a series of fictional stories roughly based on the “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”. Over twenty miniature crime scenes were used from the 1940’s to the present to train police detectives. Book three is based on the Saloon and Jail Nutshell. A man is found unconcious on a sidewalk in the West End of Boston. When they check his jai cell in the morning he's dead. How did a well known jewelry dealer end up on the sidewalk? Frances Glessner Lee and Dr. Jake Magrath search through the settlement houses and Jewish community of the West End to exonerate the young policeman who locked up the man he thought was drunk.