In 1920, Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published.  Central to the novel was chemistry and toxicology, and the novel also introduced the character of Hercule Poirot.  This podcast provides a synopsis of the novel as well as a discussion of related true crime cases, legal history, and strychnine poisoning.

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Resources:

• Christie, Agatha.  An Autobiography.  New York: HarperCollins, 1977.
• Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at Styles.  London: The Bodley Head, 1921.
• Curran, John.  Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks.  New York: Harper, 2009.
• Harkup, Kathryn.  A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie.  Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
• Morgan, Janet.  Agatha Christie: A Biography.  London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
• Osborne, Charles.  The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie.  London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999.
• The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie.  Edited by Dick Riley and Pam McAllister.  New York: Ungar, 1979.
• Couttie, Bob.  “My First Murder – The Blue Anchor Scandal.”  All Things Crime.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  http://allthingscrimeblog.com/2013/06/04/my-first-murder-the-blue-anchor-scandal/
• “Dr Thomas Neill Cream.”  Casebook.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  http://www.casebook.org/suspects/cream.html
• Lodish, Harvey, et al.  Molecular Cell Biology, Sixth Edition.  New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2008.
• “Potassium bromide.”  Wikipedia.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bromide
• “The Ghost of Alfred Jones.”  The Blue Anchor.  Accessed May 29, 2018.  http://theblueanchorbyfleet.co.uk/ghost-of-alfred-jones/

Music:

• The Missourians Vine Street Drag, 1929
• The Varsity Drag, 1927
• Grapes by I Dunno, 2008