By Deepdiscount.com

The Poisoner's Handbook (American Experience)

In the early 20th century the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest. There was radioactive radium in health tonics thallium in depilatory creams*and morphine in teething medicine and potassium cyanide in cleaning supplies. While the tools of the murderer's trade multiplied as the pace of industrial innovation increased*the scientific knowledge (and the political will) to detect and prevent the crimes lagged behind. All this changed in 1918 when New York City