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By Michael C. Gerald. 275 pp. Austin, Tex., University of Texas Press, 1993. $32.50. ISBN 0-292-76535-5.

I hate Bosco,

It's full of DDT.

Mommy put it in my milk to try to poison me.

But I fooled Mommy, I put some in her tea.

Now there's no more Mommy to try to poison me.

-- Children's rhyme

The accessibility and power of poisons make them common and convenient fantasies for murder mystery-minded adults as well as children. Agatha Christie, the genre's most popular author, used poison to dispatch more than 30 victims in the course of her 66 novels -- more than any other writer of detective fiction. The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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