The Arsenic Century - How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work and Play
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The Arsenic Century - How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work and Play
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). |
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Tags: poisoning, Arsenic, Victorian, arsenic, widely, Poisoned |
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Three At Wolfe's Door by Rex Stout
Three murder cases place arrogant, gormandizing sleuth Archie Goodwin at an exclusive dinner party where arsenic is served, in a wandering cab with a dead lady driver, and at a rodeo championship.
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Tags: Three, served, arsenic, where, wandering, Stout, Wolfe |