The poisoner's handbook

murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York

Shares the story of how the appointment of Charles Norris as chief medical examiner in New York in 1918 dramatically slowed the incidence of murder by poisoning, and looks at how Norris worked together with toxicologist Alexander Gettler to investigate chemistry-related deaths and disorders and to establish the discipline of forensics.

Penguin Press
2010
9781594202438
book
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