1560 · 16th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · ItalyThe Scholar’s Son
Cardano: amidst the father’s library, one voice is wanting.
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In the most respectable houses, self-interest sometimes serves itself first.
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · GermanyThe Angel Bremen Remembers
Gesche Gottfried: when devotion shields suspicion
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1676 · 17th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe Proprieties of the Marquise
Brinvilliers: behind the doors of an honourable house.
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1811 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · GermanyA Place in the Household
Zwanziger: several hearths, and a history none knew how to share.
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1680 · 17th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe House Where Widows Were Awaited
A wine-steeped supper led the police to a dwelling where hopes were bought…
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1777 · 18th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceAn Estate Paid with a Dead Woman
A woman vanished after entrusting her fortune to a grocer. Soon her son ce…
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1864 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe Dead Woman’s Floorboards
La Pommerais: a colossal insurance policy and the fatal trust of a former…
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1823 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe Physician Between Two Brothers
Castaing: two heirs, a vanished will, and a verdict that drew a distinctio…
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1852 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe Key to the Cabinet
Hélène Jégado: three afflicted servants, and a household that comprehended…
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1615 · 17th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandAnne Turner’s Hat
The Overbury Affair: when the great and powerful relied upon go-betweens.
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe First Pill
To reassure William Dazley, a servant girl swallowed a dose of his medicin…
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1820 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandMary Ann’s Errand
Rebecca Worlock: a child fetches her father’s beer, then must learn how to…
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1752 · 18th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Packet Rescued from the Fire
At Henley, a powder pledged to soften a father’s heart led Mary Blandy bef…
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1809 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Bed Where the Money Was to Sleep
At Bramley, William Perigo at last unstitched the packets sewn into his be…
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1781 · 18th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Rinsed Phial
Theodosius Boughton died after taking a draught. His mother remembered an…
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1828 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe Will and the Soup
Boissy, 1828. Jacques Pitra accused his wife before dying. She produced a…
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1881 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Wimbledon Capsule
In December 1881, Percy Malcolm John died a few hours following a visit fr…
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1865 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · ScotlandTwo Deaths in the Doctor’s House
In 1865, Edward William Pritchard stood trial in Edinburgh, charged with t…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Nine Pounds of Bedford Square
London, 1856–1862. Following the death of Maria Soames, the ministrations…
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1887 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandBeneath the Bed in Batty Street
Whitechapel, 1887. Young Miriam Angel is discovered dead in her bedchamber…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe Day Arsenic Was Not Enough
Following the death of Henri Lacoste at Riguepeu in May 1843, arsenic unco…
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1843 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandProof Without a Trace
Manchester, April 1843. Mary Hunter stands trial following the death of he…
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1847 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FranceThe Spiced Grape Jam of May 20
In Lille, on May 20 and 29, 1847, Jean-Baptiste Lahousse, his wife, and th…
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1856 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Saturday Draught
Leeds, 1856. Harriet Dove dies following a succession of seizures and a do…
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1817 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · England, CornwallThe Cup Left upon the Table
Elizabeth Downing fell violently ill after taking tea at the home of her s…
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1845 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandArsenic Beneath the Grave
At Christmas 1844, young Eleazar Jennings died following a family meal. An…
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1876 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · FrancePoison in the Railway Carriage
In the summer of 1876, Édouard de Bouyn shared a second-class compartment…
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1831 · 19th century · historical setting
Poisons & Inheritances · EnglandThe Two Basins
In Coventry, an analysis of the fluid extracted from the stomach of Willia…
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