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missingvolumeThe full title is The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum. I had taken this out of the library several times but never started it. I finally got to sit down and read this in almost one complete sitting and wow was it great. It made me miss chemistry since she goes into detail of the tests that they devise to find the poisons that killed the various victims. Also due to NYC's chief medical examiner's crusade against Prohibition because of the methyl alcohol deaths you get a lot of the politics of the day and the politics of Prohibition tossed in for good measure. A very interesting read and well researched with lots of footnotes to the source material.
