In today's world, forensics mean that the plotters never get away with their acts, but this wasn’t always the case. We’ve all seen on one of our favorite TV shows, that at some point, someone moves the date of their inheritance forward and poisons their helpless old grandma. The Poisoner’s Handbook Key Idea #1:Before there was any forensic toxicology, murder was prevelant in New York City.
Many people would rather risk an early death than go a day without alcohol.They looked at the mysterious deaths by poison, while improving and setting standards for forensic toxicology.
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This book summary follows the investigations of the New York City’s first professional medical examiner, Charles Norris and his partner in crime, Alexander Gettler. But this all changed, thanks to two pioneering scientists. No one knew much at all about forensic toxicology, or chemistry or even forensics. Many of these poisonings, whether they were accidental, or of a murderous intent, were misdiagnosed by the cities bumbling coronors and its incompetent justice system. People were both heedlessly intoxicating themselves, with bootleg alcohol, rubbing lethal substances on to their skin, or making deliberate attempts to get an early inheritance, poison was at everyone's disposal and it was everywhere. In New York’s Jazz Age, there were dangerous chemicals everywhere, on the streets, in the factories, in the home, and even in pharmacies. Has The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum been sitting on your reading list? Pick up the key ideas in the book with this quick summary.
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