The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Deborah BlumThe Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
February 18, 2010Penguin Paperbacks319 pages
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Ghost Hunters chronicles the dramatic story of New York City's first forensic scientists to describe Jazz Age poisoning cases, including a family's inexplicable balding, Barnum and Bailey's Blue Man and the crumbling bones of factory workers. Reprint.
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