V is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death

V is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of DeathDescription Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill fated victims. And what better way to add intrigue to a story than poison? The surreptitious ways they can be administered and the characteristic symptoms they produce make these killer chemicals the ideal method of murder in a 'whodunit'. Christie perfected the use of poisons in her plots; her deft and varied use of toxic substances is one of her

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unimpeachable sources―such as sworn testimony by soldiers who survived the ordeal―to correct the myths and legends and to reveal what really happened in the Argonne Forest during early October 1918

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