Linda Stratmann is the author of several nonfiction books, including The Marquess of Queensberry.
“Poisoning, Linda Stratmann makes clear in this extravagantly
detailed history, was one of the great fears of the 19th century…
Filling her pages with case after case, she pursues her subject
with the dogged persistence of a laboratory analyst.”—Andrew
Holgate, Sunday Times
*Sunday Times*
“The Secret Poisoner chronicles an amazing array of poisonings…
Stratmann is highly skilled at combining brevity with colour, her
rapid succession of poisonings soon coalesces into an overall
pattern.”—Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
*Mail on Sunday*
“A riveting history on the employment of poisons and the rise of
regulations on them . . . mystery readers will be intrigued by the
murderous methods and their effects on victims.”—Library
Journal
*Library Journal*
“Linda Stratmann makes a fine job of chronicling the cat-and-mouse
contest between poisoners on the one hand and science and law on
the other…ghoulishly fascinating”—Jacqueline Banerjie, TLS
*TLS*
“There’s fire in [Stratmann’s] sociological thesis that poison
murder was a “secret” crime, the chosen method of voiceless women,
children and servants — those who had no legal power within the
Victorian patriarchal system.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
Book Review
*New York Times Book Review*
"This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using
poison – from arsenic to strychnine – but also shines a light on
domestic desperation in Victorian times”—Kathryn
Hughes, Guardian
*Guardian*
“This intoxicating social history explores the rise of poison in
the Victorian era. Combining archival research with a chemist’s
expertise, Stratmann chronicles the efforts of science and the law
to combat the homicidal dispenses of toxins … Gripping and
sad.”—Tatler
*Tatler*
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