Asha’s Reviews > The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York > Status Update
Asha
is 64% done
A lot of this book is about prohibition nd I don’t know why it never clicked for me that bootleg alcohol would be dangerous? If I’d stopped and thought I would have got there. Like “alcohol will make you blind” was a genuine thing in this era.
— Jul 08, 2026 05:57AM
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Asha
is 33% done
This book has an interesting pacing because it tells the story of this one pathology lab and the people who work there but it bounces around between cases in a way that allows it to set up cliffhangers. It is quite engaging
— Jul 07, 2026 07:17AM
Asha
is 14% done
There are so many angles I’ve never considered. I’m on the section on poisons in WWI right now and I’d heard of mustard gas and other chemical warfare but never processed just how bad it was.
— Jul 07, 2026 05:32AM