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The Giant Book of Murder
The Giant Book of Murder
Author: Roger Wilkes
In 1752, a young woman named Mary Blandy put a mysterious white powder in her father's food. At her trial for the murder of the old man, a doctor gave astonishing testimony: that he believed this powder was arsenic posion - and he had performed experiments to prove it. As Mary walked up the steps to the gallows, a new science was born: the scien...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781845292034
ISBN-10: 1845292030
Pages: 530
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Publisher: Magpie books, London
Book Type: Hardcover
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Great nightstand or bathroom reader, full of information you never knew about famous murders.
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Great book about how forensics have helped solved murders.This includes many old cases so you aren't just re reading the same old murder stories. I highly recommend this book!!!!!!!!!!!!
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