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'The Poisoner's Handbook' by Deborah Blum

THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, by Deborah Blum. Penguin Press, 336 pp., $25.95.

Think we live in a dangerous age? Consider the case of the arsenic poisoner who struck at a lower Manhattan restaurant during the Roaring '20s, causing a baffling tragedy recounted in "The Poisoner's Handbook."

On a warm summer day in 1922, shortly...

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