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A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Author
Kathryn Harkup
Content
320 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York: Bloomsbury Sigma/Bloomsbury
Description
Discusses the poisons used in 14 of Agatha Christie's novels including their effects, real cases involving them, and ease of acquiring them.
Main subject
Literature and Literary Criticism
Science, Environment, Mathematics, and Technology
ISBN
9781472911308 (cloth); 9781472911315 (pap.); 9781472911292 (ebook)
Citation
Harkup, Kathryn.
A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie.
New York: Bloomsbury Sigma/Bloomsbury, 2015. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1800.
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10-27-2021
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Reviews
Booklist Online,
Sept. 1, 2015
Kirkus Reviews,
June 4, 2015
Publishers Weekly,
July 13, 2015
New York Times Book Review,
Nov. 1, 2015, 30
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