The inheritor's powder : a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science / Sandra Hempel.

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...

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Main Author: Hempel, Sandra
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Edition:First American edition.
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Physical Description:viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
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