Books like Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

Books to dare someone to read on public transport : this one and the Complete Works of Gottfried Helnwein - this guy:*This book is proof that sometimes I do go a little click crazy. When it arrived I said “I didn’t order that” but of course I had.*Jack Huddlestone was a cop in LA between 1921 and around 1953 and this is his collection of photos of murder victims, with a few other grotesqueries thrown into the mix, like circus freaks (hermaphrodites) and medical monstrosities (man with scrotum the size of a big beach ball). Rabies victims. Includes dead children. This is James Ellroy territory.*If you’re having a real bad day a quick flip through Death Scenes will get you thinking well, could be worse.*Jack has a sense of humour. Cop humour that is. On a page of photos of suicides by hanging his caption is "A Little Throat Trouble". Har har.*This could be an excellent leaving present for the work colleague you never really got to know.