George Chapman The Smiling Barber Who Killed With Tea
He shaved chins, trimmed moustaches and quietly laced cups and plates so that women went to sleep and did not wake up.Read More 
Wainewright and the Foxglove Fable
He painted beautiful pictures, forged elegant signatures and left a smell of foxglove wherever he went.Read More 
George Lamson and the Bitter Cup
A doctor who knew his plants ended up in a courtroom because a medicine tasted like trouble.Read More 
How Dr Cream Made Everyone Eye Their Brew
A clever medic who liked his bottles a bit too much and left people wondering if their cuppa was safe.Read More 
Florence Maybrick and the Sachet
A Liverpool marriage, a dying gentleman, and an arsenic question that made everyone suddenly splendidly opinionated.Read More 
Madeleine Smith's Sticky Letters and a Very Bad Cup
A heiress-in-training, a French clerk, secret letters, arsenic whispers and a Glasgow jury that could not make up its mind.Read More 
Hobart's Tea That Sent Her to the Gallows
A Tasmanian wife, corrosive sublimate in the cup, and a trial that turned small-town gossip into a public execution.Read More 
Catherine Wilson: How Care Turned Cold
A Victorian nurse who loved to be useful and also loved money more, and yes the bedside stories are wild.Read More 
She Put Strychnine in Chocolates and Brighton Lost Its Mind
Brighton 1878 had candy, chaos and one very extra woman trying to win a man's attention by any toxic means necessary.Read More 
Dr Pritchard's Bitter Medicine
A respectable doctor who dosed his own household and found the law much less forgiving than a consulting room.Read More 