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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hempel, Sandra
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Trials (Poisoning) > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Case studies.
Poisoning > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Case studies.
Arsenic > Toxicology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Murder > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Toxicology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Forensic toxicology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Forensic sciences > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The fell spirit of the Borgias
  • The big square house in the village
  • A great chain and dependency of things
  • Death by toad or insect
  • That good and pious man
  • There's not much in dying
  • A great degree of inquietude
  • Corroborative proof as to the deleterious article
  • Those low incompetent persons
  • A very active constable
  • The introduction of irritating matter
  • I never saw two things in nature more alike
  • She would not risk her soul into danger
  • Oh my poor mother
  • From the very brink of eternity
  • The sequel of these proceedings
  • What if the chymist should be mistaken?
  • The freezing influence of official neglect
  • I went with a lie in my mouth.