Murder most foul: Serial killers, impatient heirs, government agencies and corporate miscreants…

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Until the early nineteenth century few tools existed to detect a toxic substance in a corpse.

…all find their place in Deborah Blum's The Poisoner's Handbook. It's a science history—the history of forensic medicine and toxicology—that reads like a novel. So if you're into watching those medical detective shows on TV, or you like a good history of New York at the turn of the 20th, or you just dig blood and gore, you can not possibly go wrong with this book.