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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... read more
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- Smethurst
- Marsh
- Hassall
- Scheele
- Madeleine Smith
- Alfred Taylor
- Mary Blandy
- Bostock
- Reinsch
- Christison
- Mrs Maybrick
- Sarah Chesham
- Orfi La
- Toffana
- Émile
- Nicholson
- Mary Ann Cotton
- Neal
- Eliza Fenning
- Cranstoun
- Isabella Bankes
- Francis Blandy
- Buckton
- Matilda Scheurer
- Hinds
- Marsden
- Everitt
- Fraser
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime-historical. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- James C. Whorton (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: RA1231.A7W46 2011
- Dewey: 669.75094109034
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Europe › England › 19th Century
- Books › Science › Technology
- Books › Science › History & Philosophy
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