The Poisoner: A Story of Family SecretsSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2003 M10 14 - 288 páginas "Readers with a strong stomach will enjoy this unusual memoir laced with a natural history of poison." - Publishers Weekly |
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... WITH ARSENIC. John D. Gimlette, Malay Poisons and Charm Cures, 1923 I HAD READ ABOUT THE GIANT WATER BUG, BUT NEVER SEEN ONE. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974 Chapter One The pleasures of found glass WHEN I WAS.
... Never, never do that. You could die.' The sample case had arrived in a carton delivered to our house a week after my father's stepfather passed away. The strange thing was, nothing inside the package had belonged to the stepfather; it ...
... never spoke about. To have him unexpectedly break into the present moment of a life and shape a space where there had been none before brought me to what became, in time, a persistent intrusive interest in the way poison stories are ...
... never reported or charged. After a time, to protect the surviving children (according to Rose), his wife Ellen left him. She moved in with her older sister, then after a short illness Ellen died leaving Rose the burden of extra young ...
... never enough. William with his quick mind saw a chance to open out his market with a strychnine sex tonic, something he'd read about but had no dispensing experience with. In an act of pure treachery, he dosed the sick boy to see what ...
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Chapter Six Theres not much in dying | 40 |
Chapter Seven The leap from chaos | 47 |
Chapter Eight Myth and evidence | 49 |
Chapter Sixteen Death by misadventure | 144 |
Chapter Seventeen The demon nurse | 160 |
Chapter Eighteen The ghost in the labyrinth | 179 |
Chapter Nineteen A supply of white rats | 182 |
Chapter Twenty Their unflinching gaze | 186 |
Chapter Twentyone Murder on the table | 197 |
Chapter Twentytwo Rescue | 205 |
Chapter Twentythree Kraken dreams | 235 |
Chapter Nine Lethal greens | 52 |
Chapter Ten Romancing death | 76 |
Chapter Eleven The magicians clothes | 102 |
Chapter Twelve One mans meat | 120 |
Chapter Thirteen Secundum artem | 126 |
Chapter Fourteen Dry white arsenic | 135 |
Chapter Fifteen Napoleons hair | 142 |
Chapter Twentyfour Out of the coroners court | 244 |
Chapter Twentyfive As children do | 250 |
Chapter Twentysix Rumour of a midnight monster | 258 |
Endnotes | 271 |
Acknowledgements | 277 |