![]() ![]() Hempel skillfully weaves whodunit and courtroom drama to take us back to the beginnings of the controversial science of forensic toxicology. Holly Tucker, author of City of Light, City of Poison Told with verve and a keen eye for suspense, The Inheritor's Powder is a great detective story all the way to the very last page. Hempel weaves a diabolical tale of fractured families, their poisonous deeds, and the early scientists who found new ways to expose history's oldest crime. Harold Schechter, author of The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century I can't think of another recent work that so thrillingly fulfills the two major aims of literary art: to delight and instruct. Readers of Sandra Hempel's un-put-downable true crime narrative will not only find themselves caught up in a grippingly suspenseful murder mystery they will be treated to a string of brilliantly delivered lessons on everything from the origins of toxicological science to pre-Victorian medical practices to the beginnings of modern forensic detection. ![]() Part of an honored English tradition.his story still delivers the old shock: that someone actually plotted and accomplished the death of another human being. John Emsley, author of The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison ![]() Sandra Hempel has brilliantly researched a famous arsenic poisoning of 1833.This fascinating book could well be the next The Suspicions of Mr. ![]()
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