Displaying 1 of 1 2002 Format: Book Author: Bell, Gail, 1950- Title: Poison : a history and a family memoir / Gail Bell. Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Publisher, Date: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002. Description: 276 pages ; 22 cm Summary: The granddaughter of a suspected poisoner explores the crime of poisoning through the perspectives of myth, history, fiction, and the great poison trials. Subjects: Macbeth, William. Poisoning -- Australia -- History -- 20th century. Murderers -- Australia -- History -- 20th century. Poisoners -- History. Other Title: Poison principle Notes: Originally published: The poison principle. Australia : Picador, ©2001. Includes bibliographical references. 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. Web Site: Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2002512718 ISBN: 0312306792 9780312306793 Other Number: 50704074 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 126668 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 364.1523 Bell Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
