This eerie, haunting work stakes out a unique territory between true-crime compendium and coffee-table photo book, belles lettres and conceptual art. Eugenia Parry has compiled graphic crime-scene photographs taken in Paris in the last decades of the 19th century, most taken by the eccentric criminologist Alphonse Bertillon. Accompanying each photo is Parry`s fictional monologue recounting the story of each crime from the perspective of the participants--the denizens of the Parisian underworld.