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Sep 30, 2015 · Poison is as ancient an instrument of murder and mayhem as the club or blade. There are accounts in 3,000-year-old Sumerian texts of “charms and spells” that maimed and killed. It has historically been considered the weapon of cowards -- a tool wielded by the coldest, most calculating killers.
Contents. Graham Young. Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990), also known as the Teacup Poisoner, was an English serial killer who murdered his victims via poison. Obsessed with poisons from an early age, Young started poisoning the food and drink of relatives and school friends.
Aug 5, 2021 · A quintessentially British crime story set in the post-war London suburbs, it involves two sensational trials, murders both certain and probable, a clutch of forgiving relatives, and scores of surviving victims.
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“Poison has a certain appeal,” wrote Agatha Christie in They Do It With Mirrors, “ … it has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt instrument.” Death by poison is more frequent in Christie’s world than in the works of any other mystery writer. More than thirty victims fall foul to a variety of toxins (while others survive attempted p...
Strychnine is used in Christie’s first whodunit, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. For a writer, strychnine is an ideal poison, being easily absorbed with a rapid onset of action, and its effects are impressively dramatic. An alkaloid derived from the seeds of the tree Strychnos nux vomica, strychnine works as a competitive antagonist of glycine, an...
In The Pale Horse, the murderer uses a coven of witches to curse victims, thus masking deaths due to thallium (used in rat poison). Thallium can be absorbed topically, ingested or inhaled, is colourless and tasteless, dissolves in water, and has a slow onset of vague symptoms. The first signs are usually vomiting, then diarrhoea, followed by a rang...
Belladonna (also known as Deadly Nightshade, Devil’s Berries or Death Cherries) features in The Caribbean Mystery andThe Big Four. Foliage and berries are toxic, containing a mixture of alkaloids including hyoscine (scopolamine) and atropine (both anti-cholinergic anti-muscurinic in action) and hyoscyamine (an isomer of atropine). Both Emperor Augu...
Anne Harrison (author)from Australia on November 19, 2017: Cierra, Thank you! I keep re-reading her works, they are an absolute delight, and an insight into her times. Cierra Fowleron November 13, 2017: I have read all of Christie's works and loved them all. Definitely a must read for all! Anne Harrison (author)from Australia on April 14, 2015: Chr...
When Edith Swann (played by Olivia Colman) and fellow residents begin to receive threatening letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley), is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues.
Oct 7, 2013 · Murder By Poison. By Joan Acocella. October 7, 2013. A notorious arsenic case, of 1840, involved an aristocrat named Marie Lafarge. Illustration by Pierre Mornet. In...
Sep 5, 2016 · Adrian McKinty introduces Poison by Lucy Caldwell. A subtle, sweet, quietly subversive masterpiece of the pervy teacher genre. A deconstructed crime story where criminal and crime come from a...
