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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... piece of the past had lurched out at him like some sort of cellar beast that had to be fought back into its vault. Historical interest didn't come into it, neither did curiosity or sentiment. I was ten, he was thirty-three. We stood in ...
... pieces were all gold embossed.' He also had £5000 in a bank account, a chauffeur and a 'pretty brunette' girlfriend who liked guns. His chauffeur testified: “He told me on more than one occasion that he was a qualified medical man, and ...
... piece that won't fit anywhere — the motive. Rose and I shifted it around between us but it still sits stubbornly blocking the passageway and has to be climbed over. Finally there are the magician's clothes that seem to lie about ...
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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 |