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Jan 25, 2011 · A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten era. In early twentieth-century New York, poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.
- Deborah Blum
- $15.99
- Penguin Books
Feb 22, 2021 · The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.
Feb 18, 2010 · Set in the Jazz Age, The Poisoner's Handbook goes in-depth about how chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler paved the way for forensic chemistry. This book is filled with all types of ways to poison someone and how it was detected.
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Jan 25, 2011 · The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York - Kindle edition by Blum, Deborah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
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Feb 25, 2010 · At the beginning of Deborah Blum’s “Poisoner’s Handbook,” a murderer named Frederic Mors gets off virtually scot-free after confessing to multiple killings by poison, then disappears ...
A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner’s Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten era. In early twentieth-century New York, poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.
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Mar 1, 2021 · In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.
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- Deborah Blum
