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Author Bell, Gail, 1950-

Title Poison : a history and a family memoir / Gail Bell.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 BELL    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  364.1523 BEL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  364.1523 BELL    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 BELL    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 276 pages ; 22 cm
Note Originally published in Australia under the title: The poison principle. 2001.
Contents The pleasure of found glass -- Ingredients for a hell-broth -- Bitter seeds -- The victim begins to twitch -- Post mortem courtesies -- There's not much in dying -- The leap from chaos -- Myth and evidence -- Lethal greens -- Romancing death -- The magician's clothes -- One man's meat -- Secundum artem -- Dry white arsenic -- Napoleon's hair -- Death by misadventure -- The demon nurse -- The ghost in the labyrinth -- A supply of white rats -- Their unflinching gaze -- Murder on the table -- Rescue -- Kraken dreams -- One of the corner's court -- As children do -- Rumour of a midnight monster.
Subject Macbeth, William.
Homicide -- history -- Great Britain.
Poisoning -- history -- Great Britain.
Macbeth, William.
Poisoning -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Murderers -- Great Britain.
Added Title Poison principle
ISBN 0312306792
Standard No. 9780312306793 52395
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