A IS FOR ARSENIC BLOOMSBURY
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels Fourteen poisons Just because it s fiction doesn t mean it s all made up Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books indeed she employed it more than any other murder method with the poison itself often being a central part of the novel Her choice of deadly substances was far from random the characteristics of each often provide vital clues to the discovery of the murderer With gunshots or stabbings the cause of death is obvious but this is not the case with poisons How is it that some compounds prove so deadly and in such tiny amounts Christie s extensive chemical knowledge provides the backdrop for A is for Arsenic in which Kathryn Harkup investigates the poisons used by the murderer in fourteen classic Agatha Christie mysteries It looks at why certain chemicals kill how they interact with the body the cases that may have inspired Christie and the feasibility of obtaining administering and detecting these poisons both at the time the novel was written and today A is for Arsenic is a Yayınevi BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Yazar KATHRYN HARKUP Dil İNGİLİZCE Yıl 2016
