The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science

by Sandra Hempel

Book Overview

Available at any corner shop for little money and, because tasteless, difficult to detect in food or drink, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries of wills in the first half of the nineteenth century that it was nicknamed "the inheritor's powder." But after wealthy George Bodle died under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind several heirs, the chemist James Marsh was brought in to see if he could create an accurate test pinpointing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393349888
• ISBN13: 9780393349887
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"