Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup

5 reviews

rubyredders's review

informative medium-paced

3.5

Very informative and the layout of real life cases, Christie's uses and the science behind the drugs was a great choice. Although I do confess I did get a bit overwhelmed at points by the technical knowledge but this was mostly in cases with multiple similar sounding chemical names being used so wasn't particularly common.

The histories of some of these poisons are truly fascinating and the fact that some of them ever found a medical use is astonishing given how narrow a margin of error there is between treatment and you are now extremely and painfully dead.  

This is not a spoiler free book but the author does given some warning over when she is going to completely ruin a story for you. If that's a concern I would leave this in the tbr until you correct that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Blood, Vomit, Child death, and Death of parent

emma6544's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse

kk_bonton's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Death, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Addiction, Alcohol, Medical content, Animal death, Blood, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

mandkips's review against another edition

informative mysterious slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Animal death

blueowl2ivy's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Animal death