Show Notes
How crime writers turned pharmaceutical regulations into plot points.
My guest for this episode is Dr Kathryn Harkup. Her book V is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death is available now.
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Books mentioned in this episode:— A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie— Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers— The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley— Family Matters by Anthony Rolls
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