Craved clinical evidence revealing moral collapse in The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Let The Poisoner's Handbook by keep you chasing proof.
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- Autopsy tables & lab notebooks replace courtrooms
- Poisoners caught via chemical detective work
- Darkly absurd cases reveal institutional rot
- Forensic pioneers w/ morally messy motives
If El-Hai hooked you with Göring's morphine stash and the psychiatric charts that mapped his unraveling, Blum delivers the same archival rush—only this time, the evidence comes from autopsy tables and vials of arsenic catalogued in New York City coroner's offices. She reconstructs Jazz Age poisonings case by case, letting lab notes and courtroom transcripts do the storytelling, never pausing to editorialize. The result is forensic history as intimate and procedurally meticulous as anything in The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.
Blum's toxicologists are diagnosticians and detectives rolled into one, tracking organ damage and chemical traces with the same clinical precision El-Hai brought to wartime interrogation rooms. The moral verdicts arrive quietly, through evidence alone.
Here is proof that wrongdoing reveals itself most clearly under a microscope.
What Readers Are Saying
"Wow! I picked this up as an impulse buy... Now that I've read it, she can't have it: it's mine. The book has an interestingly layered organization..." — Ginger K, Goodreads
"...tells a series of fascinating true stories about murder investigations where poison was the cause of death...clearly explained. A captivating journey through the history of science and public health." — boxer_dogs_dance, Goodreads
"This is a fascinating book, and very well written...the depth of corruption in the city's administration under Mayor Hylan was incredible...Highly recommended!" — David Rubenstein, Goodreads
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