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Audiobook
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York AUDIOBOOK
by Blum, Deborah
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1400115507
- ISBN 13
- 9781400115501
- Seller
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Shorewood, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Tantor. 2010. Audiobook. 1400115507 . Unabridged reading by Coleen Marlo on 8 CDs. All discs are VG in VG plastic case. .
Synopsis
Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie" ( The New York Observer ) A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten era. In early twentieth-century New York, poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Science had no place in the Tammany Hall-controlled coroner's office, and corruption ran rampant. However, with the appointment of chief medical examiner Charles Norris in 1918, the poison game changed forever. Together with toxicologist Alexander Gettler, the duo set the justice system on fire with their trailblazing scientific detective work, triumphing over seemingly unbeatable odds to become the pioneers of forensic chemistry and the gatekeepers of justice.
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Details
- Seller
- Aardvark Book Depot
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 30376
- Title
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York AUDIOBOOK
- Author
- Blum, Deborah
- Format/Binding
- Audiobook
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 1400115507
- ISBN 13
- 9781400115501
- Publisher
- Tantor
- Place of Publication
- Old Saybrook, Connecticut, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- 1400115507
Terms of Sale
Aardvark Book Depot
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About the Seller
Aardvark Book Depot
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Shorewood, Wisconsin
About Aardvark Book Depot
In business since 1987, we buy and sell a wide variety of quality used books. We are always interested in buying books & make housecalls throughout southeastern Wisconsin. When you're in southeastern Wisconsin, visit our booths in the Originals Mall of Antiques in Oshkosh, in the School Days Mall in Sturtevant, in the Peninsula Antique Mall in Egg Harbor, Door County, in the Olde Orchard Antique Mall in Egg Harbor, Door County, in the Antique Center at Wales.
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