Guillermo Del Toro making a Twin Peaks-style detective drama for
HBO  HBO and Guillermo Del Toro are making a show with a Twin
Peaks and Hitchcock feel? Throw in some Gothic beast people, and
we're sold.  THR broke the news that Del Toro is attached as
direct and executive produce an adaptation of the book Nutshell
Studies of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz. It's a pretty
insane idea, given that the book recreates a collection of
unsolved cases from the past, along with photographs of the
incredibly detailed dioramas that were constructed with each
case. Here's the run down from Amazon:  The Nutshell Studies of
Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into
the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner
Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal
Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in
the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she built
dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases in order to train
detectives to assess visual evid