Secret Poisoner

Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. She corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons and documents how the evolution of issues such as marital rights and the legal protection of children impacted poisonings. Combining archival research with a novelist’s eye, Stratmann charts the era’s inexorable rise of poison cases both shocking and sad.

Crima de otrava a alarmat, captivat si, in multe privinte, a incapsulat epoca victoriana. Istoria sociala intunecata si splendida a lui Linda Stratmann dezvaluie secolul al XIX-lea ca un camp de lupta groaznic in care otravitorii s-au confruntat cu autoritatile care s-au straduit sa detecteze otravurile, sa le controleze disponibilitatea si sa aduca vinovatii in fata justitiei.