Title The secret poisoner : a century of murder / Linda Stratmann.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction	364.1523 STRATMANN	Check Shelf
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Description	xii, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The Devilish Dumplings -- Smothered in Onions -- The Greatest Refinement of Villainy -- Arsenic and Old Graves -- The Suspicious of Mr Marsh -- French Porcelain -- This Troublesome World -- Getting Away with Murder -- Alarm and Indignation -- The Essex Factor -- Tobacco Kills -- Nil by Mouth -- The Palmer Act -- Expert Witnesses -- Deadly Doctors -- Matrimonal Causes -- Sleight of Hand -- Disappearing Poison -- Our American Cousins.
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Poisoners -- History -- 19th century.
	Poisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Murderers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Murderers -- History -- 19th century.
	HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
	TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
	SCIENCE -- History.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
	Murderers. (OCoLC)fst01029821
	Poisoners. (OCoLC)fst01068139
	Poisoning -- history.
	Homicide -- history.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	True crime stories.
ISBN	9780300204735 (hardcover)
	0300204736 (hardcover)

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