Table of Contents
Dame Agatha's Deadly Dispensary 9
A is for Arsenic - Murder is Easy 19
B is for Belladonna - The Labours of Hercules 49
C is for Cyanide - Sparkling Cyanide 71
D is for Digitalis - Appointment with Death 89
E is for Eserine - Crooked House 109
H is for Hemlock - Five Little Pigs 127
M is for Monkshood - 4.50 from Paddington 141
N is for Nicotine - Three Act Tragedy 157
O is for Opium - Sad Cypress 175
P is for Phosphorus - Dumb Witness 203
R is for Ricin - Partners in Crime 223
S is for Strychnine - The Mysterious Affair at Styles 237
T is for Thallium - The Pale Horse 255
V is for Veronal - Lord Edgware Dies 275
Appendix 1 Christie's Causes of Death 291
Appendix 2 Structures of some of the chemicals in this book 308
Selected Bibliography 312
Acknowledgements 314
Index 315