The Poisoner's Handbook

[Paisley]

Imagine CSI meets The Untouchables. This is a chronology of true short stories of poisoning, both accidental and deliberate, investigated by pioneering medical examiners in New York City from around 1910 through 1935. In those days, poisons such as thallium, cyanide, arsenic, radium, lead, methyl alcohol and mercury were in everyday products. Coroners knew little about detecting poisons in cadavers--until Dr. Charles Norris and his staff changed city policies, performed thousands of experiments, and wrote a steady stream of research papers.

Whether you like reading about chemistry, medicine, murder, trials, political machinations, Prohibition, the Gilded Age, the Jazz Age, New York City, Bowery bums or beautiful people, I think this book will interest you.

 

[W4ASZ]

This, too :

Be sure to read the well-done, and fun, Was Napoleon Poisoned ?, written by Deborah Blum's husband, Peter Haugen.

It would obviously pay to be nice to these people.

 

[Paisley]

"There are mornings," Deborah Blum writes, "lit by the cold winter light, when I start talking about a poison in my book, revealing my own dangerous expertise, and as I do, I watch my husband quietly, not really thinking about it, slide his cup out of my reach."

 

[BellyTank]

A film, from 1995, with a similar name:
"The Young Poisoner's Handbook"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115033/plotsummary


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[W4ASZ]

A film, from 1995, with a similar name:
"The Young Poisoner's Handbook"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115033/plotsummary


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You do have a taster for your food and beverage lined up after pointing that out, yes ?

 

[LocktownDog]

Great. A couple of more titles to add to my "to read" list.

 

[Story]

Great. A couple of more titles to add to my "to read" list.

Feel like it'll never end? lol
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=48844&highlight=poisoner's
(See post #2)

 

[Paisley]

I'm sure I did a search for this book's title here. Not sure how I missed it. [huh]

 

[Yeps]

Imagine CSI meets The UntouchablesCoroners knew little about detecting poisons in cadavers--until Dr. Charles Norris and his staff changed city policies, performed thousands of experiments, and wrote a steady stream of research papers.

It figures that Chuck Norris (MD) would be involved in this.

 

[bluebell]

Very interesting. Is it still actual-I mean poisons, poisoners and so?

 

[bluebell]

So while most of you are sleeping let me continue. I believe that those days they knew much more about recipes poisons. It was an appropriate industry - how to poison a potential victim with minimal risk to be unmusked.