The inheritor's powder
Hempel, Sandra2014
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This is the story of how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology. In the 19th century criminal poisoning with arsenic was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few questions asked, it was possible to buy enough poison to kill off an entire family, hence arsenic's popular name: the Inheritor's Powder. Yet if poisoning was easy, it was a notoriously difficult crime to prove.
Main title:
The inheritor's powder / Sandra Hempel.
Imprint:
Oxford : ISIS Soundings, 2014.
Collation:
7 CDs : digital, stereo
ISBN:
9781445036489 (CDs)
Dewey class:
364.1'523'0941'09034
Language:
English
Subject:
Poisoning -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Case studiesTrials (Poisoning) -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studiesBodle familyPoisoners -- England -- HistoryArsenic -- Toxicology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryToxicology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryAudiobooks
BRN:
1929822
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