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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Age tale of chemistry and detection poison and murder. In early-twentieth-century New York poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Science had no place in the Tammany Hall-controlled coroner’s office and corruption ran rampant. However with the appointment of chief medical examiner Charles Norris in 1918 the poison game changed forever. Together with toxicolo- gist Alexander Gettler Norris set the justice system on fire with his trailblazing scientific detective work and established the discipline of forensics. Following the trail of evidence that leads them to downtown tenements swanky smoke-filled jazz clubs and moonshine distilleries Norris and Gettler work with a creativity that rivals the most imaginative murder. Yet each case presents a new lethal challenge and the sce- nario astound: Norris and Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald Barnum and Bailey’s Famous Blue Man factory workers with crumbling bones a diner serving poisoned pies and many others. (SP)