Shortlisted for the Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie reveled in use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her knihy; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison itself often being a central part of the novel. Her choice of deadly substances was far from random – the characteristics of each often provide vital clues to the discovery of the murderer. S gunshots alebo stabbings dôsledok smrti je obviňaný, ale nie je case s poisons. How is it that some compounds prove so deadly, and in such tiny amounts? Christie's bohaté chemické vedomosti vykonávajú backdrop pre A je pre Arsenic, v ktorých Kathryn Harkup investuje do poisons používaných múrik v štyroch klasických Agatha Christie mysteries. Ide looks at why certain chemických kill, ako ich interact s body, the cases that may inspiroval Christie, a pravdepodobnosť obtaining, administering a detekting tieto poisons, both at time the novela bola written and today. A je pre Arsenic je oslava používania vedeckého prostriedku po rozhovore Queen of Crime. Table of Content 1. Dame Agatha Deadly Dispensary 2. A je pre Arsenic – Murder aj s Easy 3. B je pre Belladonna – The Labours of Hercules 4. C je pre Cyanide – Sparkling Cyanide 5. E is for Eserine – Crooked House 7. H is for Hemlock – Five Little Pigs 8. M is for Monkshood – 4:50 from Paddington 9. N is for Nicotine – Three Act Tragedy 10. O is for Opium – Sad Cypress P is for Phosphorus – Dumb Witness 12. R is for Ricin – Partners in Crime 13. S is for Strychnine – The Mysterious Affair at Styles 14. T is for Thallium – The Pale Horse 15. V is for Veranol – Lord Edg - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-is-for-arsenic-9781472911322/#sthash.gdeHpJgn.dpuf