The Poisoner's Handbook

Deborah Blum chronicles the birth of forensic toxicology in Jazz Age New York through the partnership of stubborn chief medical examiner Charles Norris and gifted chemist Alexander Gettler. The book reveals how poisoners were systematically caught for the first time as science transformed murder investigation and exposed the deadly hazards of Prohibition-era industrial chemicals.

ISBN 9781410425126 · Penguin · 2010