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A beguiling concoction-equal parts true criminal offenses, twentieth-century record, and science thriller.
A remarkable Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten era. In early twentieth-century NY, poisons offered a fairly easy way to the perfect criminal offenses. Science had room in the Tammany Hall-controlled coroner's office, and problem ran rampant. However, with the session of chief medical examiner Charles Norris in 1918, the poison game altered forever. Together with toxicologist Alexander Gettler, the duo arranged the justice system on fire with their trailblazing technological detective work, triumphing over apparently unbeatable odds to be the pioneers of forensic chemistry.
