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Inheritor's Powder Inheritor's Powder Sandra Hempel 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 questi… OL21263034W
A Poisoned Chalice A Poisoned Chalice Jeffrey Freedman "A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. The story is riveting and mysterious, full of bizarre tw… OL8327339W