Paisley
I'll Lock Up
- Messages
- 5,439
- Location
- Indianapolis
Imagine CSI meets The Untouchables. This is a chronology of true short stories of poisoning, both accidental and deliberate, investigated by pioneering medical examiners in New York City from around 1910 through 1935. In those days, poisons such as thallium, cyanide, arsenic, radium, lead, methyl alcohol and mercury were in everyday products. Coroners knew little about detecting poisons in cadavers--until Dr. Charles Norris and his staff changed city policies, performed thousands of experiments, and wrote a steady stream of research papers.
Whether you like reading about chemistry, medicine, murder, trials, political machinations, Prohibition, the Gilded Age, the Jazz Age, New York City, Bowery bums or beautiful people, I think this book will interest you.
Whether you like reading about chemistry, medicine, murder, trials, political machinations, Prohibition, the Gilded Age, the Jazz Age, New York City, Bowery bums or beautiful people, I think this book will interest you.
Be sure to read the well-done, and fun, Was Napoleon Poisoned ?, written by Deborah Blum's husband, Peter Haugen. 
