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Title: The Poisoner's Handbook( Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: DeborahBlum <>Publisher: PenguinBooks
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"The Poisoner's Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties."--Financial Times
"The Poisoner's Handbook is an inventive history that, like arsenic, mixed into blackberry pie, goes down with ease."--The New York Times Book Review "Deborah Blum has not lost the skills of good storytelling she honed as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist." --Chicago Sun-Times "Reads like science fiction, complete with suspense, mystery and foolhardy guys in lab coats tipping test tubes of mysterious chemicals into their own mouths." -- NPR: What We're Reading "Fans of those TV forensic shows or of novels by Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs or Jefferson Bass will find plenty to satisfy their appetites here." --The Washington Post "Blum's combination of chemistry and crime fiction creates a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie."--The New York Observer "The Poisoner's Handbook opens one riveting murder case after another in this chronicle of Jazz Age chemical crimes where the real-life twists and turns are as startling as anything in fiction. Deborah Blum turns us all into forensic detectives by the end of this expertly written, dramatic page-turner that will transform the way you think about the power of science to threaten and save our lives."--Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists and The Dante Club"With the pacing and rich characterization of a first-rate suspense novelist, Blum makes science accessible and fascinating." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
Deborah Blum is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and editor of Undark magazine, (undark.org). In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series on primate research, which she turned into a book, The Monkey Wars. Her other books include The Poisoner's Handbook, Ghost Hunters, Love at Goon Park, and Sex on the Brain. She has written for publications including The New York Times, Wired, Time, Discover, Mother Jones, The Guardian and The Boston Globe. Blum is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a lifetime associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
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- PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 014311882X
- ISBN 13 9780143118824
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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