The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science by Sandra Hempel
The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
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Sandra Hempel
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The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science

Sandra Hempel

352 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime mysterious slow-paced
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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 i...

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