Topic: Charles Norris

"The Poisoner's Handbook"

Big Think - 535 days ago
I can't say enough good things about Deborah Blum's "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. The heroes of the story are the New York City medical examiner Dr. Charles Norris ...

Top 10 1-UP Rank Names I came Up with.

1UP.com - 698 days ago
So seeing as how I am only about 81,000 points away from being able to choose a rank name that suits me better. Charles Norris. Rank: These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty!. Rank:

Blum traces birth of forensic medicine in NY

AP Features - 720 days ago
"The Poisoner's Handbook:Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" (Penguin, 336 pages, $25.95), by Deborah Blum:Blum's book is replete with carefully researched accounts of how pioneering work by Charles Norris and Alexander ...

How Manhattan's poisoners met their match

New Scientist - 732 days ago
"Nice woman," toxicologist Alexander Gettler commented to reporters at the trial of Ruth Snyder, New York's infamous "Double Indemnity" murderer. In Deborah Blum's The Poisoner's Handbook, we see Gettler and his colleague, chief medical examiner Charles Norris, wield Bunsen ...