Table of Contents
Introduction 6
Chapter 1 Poison in the Ancient World 12
Socrates 14
Cleopatra 20
Locusta, Canidia, and Martina 26
Livia 32
Chapter 2 Cases from Medieval Times and the Renaissance 36
Juan Ponce De Léon 38
Catherine de' Medici 42
Poisoning at the Tudor Court 46
The Borgias 52
Chapter 3 Murder in the 17th and 18th Centuries 58
The Affair Of The Poisons 60
Mary Blandy 66
Marquis de Sade 72
Chapter 4 The Golden Age of Poisoning 78
George Henry Lansom 80
Thomas Cream 84
Marie Lafarge 90
Mary Ann Cotton 96
Audrey Marie Hilley 102
Dr Crippen 108
Rasputin 114
The Philadelphia Poison Ring 120
Nannie Doss 126
Violette Nozière 132
Poisons in Warfare 136
Chapter 5 From Cults to Contemporary Espionage 144
The Rev Jim Jones 146
Georgi Markov 152
Richard Kuklinski 156
The Tokyo Subway Sarin Poisonings 160
Harold Shipman 166
Viktor Yuschenko 172
Alexander Litvinenko 178
Index 184
References 191
Image Credits 192
