Poisons in fact and fiction
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- Region:
- South West
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Expensed: Around £50 depending on travel distance.
- Category:
- Humanities
- Updated:
- 11th June 2025
- Tagged:
- Crime Fiction | Poisons
I discuss what is meant by a poison,, with examples, and describe a number of real-life poisoning cases such as Palmer, Crippen and Kaur Singh. I then go on to discuss how crime writers from Chaucer to MW Craven have used poisons in their plots, with examples of particularly ingenious usages.
Views: 16 | Enquiries: 0About Brian Price
I am a Chartered Chemist and a Chartered Biologist and use my scientific knowledge to advise other writers about science and crime. I have analysed drugs in a hospital pharmacy, have worked as an environmental consultant, and worked for the Environment Agency for 12 years. I am an Open University graduate and was an OU tutor for 26 years.
In 2019 I wrote Crime writing: How to write the science, a guide for authors on how to avoid scientific mistakes and in 2021 the first of my detective thrillers, Fatal Trade, was published. There are now five books in the series and I have also written A Pocketful of Poisons, a collection of short stories.
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