The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
by:
Sandra Hempel (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780393240467 (0393240460)
Publish date: October 15th 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Overall, this was good. Hempel frames the rudimentary beginnings of forensic science - specifically toxicology - within the narrative of a famous poisoning case of the time, that of the Bodle family, which resulted in the death of George Bodle, the rather wealthy patriarch. She sets up a rather...
So.... I think, maybe, I could win a few rounds of 17th/18th century Trivial Pursuit on the subject of early forensics, but other than that this was kind of a waste of my time after the first third of the book. So, so much information, but it was so disorganized... My impression of the book when...
When I saw this on my library's new Non-Fiction shelves, I simply had to pick it up. Apparently they'd picked it up in December of last year, but events lead me to seek out their new offerings last month. The whole of the non-fiction section of my library is blocked off while undergoing renovation.....
bookshelves: autumn-2013, nonfiction, published-2013, radio-4, true-grime, poison, britain-england, victoriana Read from September 14 to 20, 2013 BOTWBBC BLURB: On the morning of Saturday 2nd of November 1833, the Bodle household sat down to their morning breakfast, sharing a pot of coffee. That...
BOTWBBC BLURB: On the morning of Saturday 2nd of November 1833, the Bodle household sat down to their morning breakfast, sharing a pot of coffee. That evening, the local surgeon John Butler received an urgent summons - the family and their servants had all collapsed with a serious illness. Three day...
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