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    Which poison was used most frequently in Agatha Christie's works? I believe the answer can be found in a book called "The Complete Christie" by Matthew Bunson, but I don't have access to it - please help!

    Question #38546. Asked by MotherGoose. (Sep 07 03 9:11 PM)


    shady shaker

    		Hello, Mother Goose! I looked at several websites
    with info about Agatha, but could not find a
    definitive answer to your question. www.ananova.com/yournews/story lists several
    poisons that featured in Christie's books.
    She worked in a pharmacy during WW1, where she acquired her knowledge of poisons. Best Wishes.

    Sep 08 03, 12:30 AM
    Senior Moments



    Arsenic was first used by Greek and Chinese healers more than 2,000 years ago to treat everything from syphilis to cancer, but was also the favourite poison of the Savellis, the Borgias and Agatha Christie. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nrc/journal/v2/n9/full/nrc887_r.html

    Sep 08 03, 6:18 AM
    mibmob

    		Arsenic was the easiest poison to obtain until reasonably recently as you just soaked fly papers which were impregnated - cf. Maybrick murder. My "favourite" murder is the thallium murders where the bloke kept saying to the police who were at a loss at to how the people had died "Have they thought of Thallium?"!!

    Sep 08 03, 7:00 AM

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