Radium Girls—the Zeitgeist is now full of this radiation-tragedy with shimmering women at its center. But the song’s inspiration predates it: The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum. Is that morbid? Yes indeed. But I could not look away. Strap in for a load of history and gloom, dear ones, and steer clear of the thallium salts.
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York https://a.co/d/9ftzrBi
