The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder

"This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison" and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian, UK).

Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with scientific and legal authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and br...