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The poison principle, Gail Bell ; read by Wendy Bos and Helen Garner

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The poison principle

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Gail Bell ; read by Wendy Bos and Helen Garner

When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in 1927, his wife and sister hid the murders in the intensely private realm of family secrets. Like the famous British poisoner Dr Crippen, Macbeth behaved as if he were immune to consequences; unlike Crippen, he avoided detection and punishment. Or did he? Secrets can be as corrosive as poison, and as time passed, the story of Dr William Macbeth, well-dressed poisoner, haunted and divided his descendants. The author, Gail Bell, Macbeth's granddaughter and a chemist herself, has written an intricate, elegant and beautifully realised book about family secrets and literary poisonings

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