TY - BOOK ID - 80837530 TI - The secret poisoner : a century of murder PY - 2016 SN - 9780300219548 0300219547 9780300204735 0300204736 PB - New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Poisoners KW - Murderers KW - Homicide offenders KW - Killers (Murderers) KW - Murder offenders KW - Criminals KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80837530 AB - 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. ER -