A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie

by Kathryn Harkup

Book Overview

People are fascinated by murder. The popularity of murder mystery books, TV series, and even board games shows that there is an appetite for death, and the more unusual or macabre the method, the better. With gunshots or stabbings the cause of death is obvious, but poisons are inherently more mysterious. How are some compounds so deadly in such tiny amounts? Agatha Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other crime fiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147291130X
• ISBN13: 9781472911308
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury SIGMA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.7"