Inheritor's Powder
About this book
This is the story of how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology. In the 19th century criminal poisoning with arsenic was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few questions asked, it was possible to buy enough poison to kill off an entire family, hence arsenic's popular name: the Inheritor's Powder. Yet if poisoning was easy, it was a notoriously difficult crime to prove.
Reader Profile
· 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Inheritor's Powder?
About ≈ 5 h 20 m — 288 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Inheritor's Powder?
288 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Inheritor's Powder?
It sits on the True Crime, Biography & Memoir, History shelves.
Is Inheritor's Powder in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Inheritor's Powder?
Sandra Hempel.