General Information

Author/Creator

Blum, Deborah, 1954-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Penguin Press, 2010.

Physical Description

319 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies, and many others. Each case presents a deadly new puzzle and Norris and Gettler create revolutionary experiments to tease out even the wiliest compounds from human tissue. From the vantage of their laboratory it also becomes clear that murderers aren't the only toxic threat--modern life has created a kind of poison playground, and danger lurks around every corner.

Subjects

Subject

Poisoning > New York (State) > History.

Forensic toxicology > New York (State) > History.

Forensic sciences > New York (State) > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Deborah Blum.

Content

Prologue: the poison game -- One: chloroform (CHCL3) -- Two: wood alcohol (CH3OH) -- Three: cyanides (HCN, KCN, NaCN) -- Four: arsenic (As) -- Five: mercury (Hg) -- Six: carbon monoxide (CO), part I -- Seven: methyl alcohol (CH3OH) -- Eight: radium (Ra) -- Nine: ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH) -- Ten: carbon monoxide (CO), Part II -- Eleven: thallium (TI) -- Epilogue: the surest poison.

ISBN

9781594202438

1594202435

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	614/.1309747109041 BLU		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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