Toxic Lozenges
Jenny Diski: Arsenic, 8 July 2010
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work and Play
by James Whorton.
Oxford, 412 pp., £16.99, January 2010,978 0 19 957470 4 Show More
by James Whorton.
Oxford, 412 pp., £16.99, January 2010,
“... the best dull writers.’ He’s specifically referring to crime novelists – the likes of Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie – in an attempt to wrest the detective story away from the English suburbs and towards the grittier (and far more romantic) novels written by himself and Dashiell Hammett. An explanation of ... ”