Dying for Chocolate: Cordelia Botkin and the 1898 Poisoned Candy Murders

by Kerry Segrave

On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in the mail from an anonymous sender. Within days, two of the seven family members were dead; the other five became ill but recovered. The search for the perpetrator soon moved from Delaware to California, where a suspect was quickly identified: Cordelia Botkin, lover of the husband of one of the poisoned women.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147668362X
• ISBN13: 9781476683621
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"