The inheritor's powder : a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science / Sandra Hempel.
TITLE:
The inheritor's powder : a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science / Sandra Hempel.
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Publication Date:
2015, 2013
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company,
Physical Description:
viii, 280 p.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780393349887
