The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
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Available at any corner shop for little money and, because tasteless, difficult to detect in food or drink, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries of wills in the first half of the nineteenth century that it was nicknamed "the inheritor's powder." But after wealthy George Bodle died under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind several heirs, the chemist James Marsh was brought in to see if he could create an accurate test pinpointing...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393349888
ISBN13:9780393349887
Release Date:November 2014
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"
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