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Sparkling cyanide
The coroner's verdict: suicide, after beautiful heiress Rosemary Barton dies from drinking a cyanide-laced glass of champagne at her own birthday party. Her husband George doesn't believe it, based on two anonymous letters that suggest murder. But who has a motive? Rosemary's lover or the lover's spurned wife, her penniless sister, or even George or his secretary? One year after her death, six gather for dinner in remembrance. The plan is to trap the killer, but instead, death strikes again!
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Presentation of pharmacological content in crime novels between 1890 and 2023
As there is lack of research on how drugs are presented in crime literature, we read nearly 25,000 pages of crime literature written between 1890 and 2023 to provide an overview on the pharmacological content in this genre. Correct presentation of pharmacological information decreased over time. Misconceptions about certain substances, especially narcotics and anesthetics appear in many of the analyzed examples. Also, in comparison with crime TV series, books are inferior in providing the reader with additional information and pharmacological plausibility. This especially applies for the newer books which contained less additional information than the older ones. In contrast, some books educate their readers. Newer books show a greater variety of substances also introducing recently developed drugs or new ways of application. On the contrary, older books stick to a small selection of well-known substances during that time, especially metals like arsenic and toxins like strychnine. Gender involvement in poisoning is not realistically presented in the novels. Male victims are overrepresented compared to reality. Also, the etiology is commonly presented incorrectly. Poisoning by accident or for suicidal purposes are rarely presented in the novels, despite their significance in reality. Overall, crime novels educate but also misinform their readers. We discuss the consequences of our findings for the individual reader and public health.
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Thief strikes!
Hilde and her sister/photographer Izzy have two cases to investigate for their paper, the Orange Street News: someone is stealing vegetables from the local greenhouse, and a lot of people seem to be getting sick eating the hot dogs from a local food stand--and soon Hilde starts to believe that the two cases may be related.
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Carbon Monoxide: An Ancient Silent Enemy
Initially it was thought that the men died of exposure, starvation, or scurvy, but there was still fuel and lots of food on board, and these conditions do not cause death all at once. K_J_McPike (Accessed May 23, 2024)] Chronic or occult CO poisoning is also referred to as the \"winter flu\" as its symptoms arc very similar to the flu, and it tends to occur in winter, when the doors and windows arc closed and the potential sources of CO such as furnaces, fireplaces, and water heaters arc on. Gothic Horror \"...all of us would have been dead in a few minutes by carbonic oxide [CO] gas poisoning generated by the presence of burning coal in a closed room and the laymen would have ascribed our deaths to ghosts and legends of haunted houses У [11] \"Every society has ancient myths of demons who come on cold nights to take the lives ofthey oung and elderly. Poorly ventilated charcoalfres lead to heart disease, mental health problems and death.\"
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Rory Branagan : detective
Ten-year-old Rory Branagan teams up with his neighbor, Cassidy Corrigan, and canine sidekick, Wilkins Welkin, to investigate his father's disappearance seven years before, but first gets caught up in neighborhood mysteries.
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Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema
Films illustrate 2 ways that epidemics can affect societies: fear leading to a breakdown in sociability and fear stimulating preservation of tightly held social norms. The first response is often informed by concern over perceived moral failings within society, the second response by the application of arbitrary or excessive controls from outside the community.
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Death comes to London
Leaving their father's rectory, two sisters set out for the social season in London only to end up investigating the poisoning of a dowager countess.
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Poisoning cases in the German crime series Tatort (crime scene) from 1974 to 2022
Poisoning occurs frequently in TV crime series but, to the best of our knowledge, has not yet been analyzed scientifically. This study examines the plausibility of poisoning cases in Germany’s most popular crime series,
Tatort
(crime scene), from 1974 to 2022. In the TV series, the increasing rate of poisoning in Germany as well as the increasing variety of substances leading to poisoning over the years are depicted. Largely in line with reality, similar substance categories and routes of administration are presented. However, poisoning outcomes in
Tatort
differ from reality: over 50% of the victims die in
Tatort
, whereas in reality, more than 80% survive. In > 95% of the episodes, the mechanism of action of a poison is not explained, omitting an important opportunity for raising public awareness. The TV series also deviates from reality in terms of the etiology of poisonings: External poison delivery is largely overrepresented, while the high rate of accidental poisonings in real life is underrepresented. Almost no accidental poisonings occur in
Tatort
, although this is the most frequent type of poisoning in real life. In
Tatort
, men are overrepresented as offenders and victims of poisoning compared to reality. Thus, the crime series does not convey the message that anyone can be a potential victim of poisoning and that particularly vulnerable groups need proper education and the best possible protection. This paper discusses the conflict between detailed, plausible episodes with cases of poisoning and the potential for imitation that they may cause.
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The dragon's tale
Princess Pulverizer's friend Dribble the dragon gets the chance to run his own restaurant but when villagers start feeling sick to their stomachs, Dribble is blamed. Princess Puverizer must clear her friend's name before his reputation is ruined.
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Eva's Man's Unspeakable Risk
Gayl Jones's warily canonical Eva's Man (1976) demands to be encountered on its own terms without conscription into positive framings. The novel, about a woman imprisoned in a psychiatric ward for poisoning and orally castrating her lover, represents violent eroticism and excruciatingly grotesque images that are, of course, fantasy representations. Nevertheless, they are some of the most transgressive ever published and Jones refers to the novel as a \"horror story.\" 1 argue, through close readings of the novel and its historical criticism, that Jones has been marginalized within the Black literary canon throughout much of her career largely due to her fearless exploration of erotic, asymmetrical power dynamics represented through ambiguously consensual sexualized violence. Eva's Man troubles the delineation between victim and agent which is perhaps what is most ideologically risky about it. The novel allows for an open exploration of transgressive desire not necessarily bound to abuse or trauma.
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