The Secret Poisoner : A Century of Murder
The Secret Poisoner : A Century of Murder
by Linda Stratmann
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0300204736 | 357 Pages | True PDF | 17 MB
by Linda Stratmann
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0300204736 | 357 Pages | True PDF | 17 MB
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated 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 authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. She corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons and documents how the evolution of issues such as marital rights and the legal protection of children impacted poisonings. Combining archival research with a novelist's eye, Stratmann charts the era's inexorable rise of poison cases both shocking and sad.
“A riveting history on the employment of poisons and the rise of regulations on them . . . mystery readers will be intrigued by the murderous methods and their effects on victims.”—Library Journal
“Linda Stratmann makes a fine job of chronicling the cat-and-mouse contest between poisoners on the one hand and science and law on the other… ghoulishly fascinating”—Jacqueline Banerjie, TLS