{"product_id":"poisoned-britain-julian-maddox-9798195439576","title":"Poisoned Britain: Arsenic, Teacups and the Domestic Murders That Changed British Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cup was already on the table.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this atmospheric work of \u003cb\u003eBritish true crime history\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoisoned Britain\u003c\/i\u003e explores the real poisoning cases, arsenic murders and domestic crimes that shocked Victorian, Edwardian and modern Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurder did not always arrive with a knife in the dark. It arrived as tea, medicine, jam, chocolate, flypaper, morphine - or a dose that looked like care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoisoned Britain\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the domestic murders that changed British crime: servants accused from below stairs, wives judged by scandal, doctors trusted at the bedside, carers who turned dependence into opportunity, and ordinary households where illness hid something far darker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Eliza Fenning and Madeleine Smith to Dr Crippen, George Chapman, Mary Ann Cotton, Graham Young and Kenneth Barlow, these are not simple tales of monsters and victims. They are cases of trust, access, class, gender, \u003cb\u003eOld Bailey trials\u003c\/b\u003e, forensic uncertainty and the terrifying question at the heart of every poisoning: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho was allowed close enough?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtmospheric, precise and deeply unsettling, \u003ci\u003ePoisoned Britain\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the most intimate crimes in British history were often hidden in the safest-looking places - the kitchen, the sickroom, the nursing home, the marriage bed, and the cup placed gently into someone's hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julian Maddox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195439576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Julian Maddox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801472512255,"sku":"9798195439576","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poisoned-britain-julian-maddox-9798195439576","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}