tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post5171243175525169462..comments2024-03-18T11:01:42.459-05:00Comments on Pretty Sinister Books: TUESDAY NIGHT BLOGGERS: What's Your Poison?J F Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-33016947821319363712016-07-06T21:27:11.117-05:002016-07-06T21:27:11.117-05:00OK, I won't! I think I need to go back and re...OK, I won't! I think I need to go back and read more Marsh because she had a penchant for bizarre murder methods. Several Marsh titles I have yet to read turned up in an article I stumbled across in my research. I've read about 80% of the books listed here, but of course it's just a small sampling of what I felt were the very odd murder methods. There could be an entire book about this and not just related to poison.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-39894642325830213552016-07-06T20:14:09.820-05:002016-07-06T20:14:09.820-05:00Don't forget Ngaio Marsh's Death at the Ba...Don't forget Ngaio Marsh's Death at the Bar - poison administered via a game of darts!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418612871246199865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-25652939881021839262016-07-06T13:26:34.819-05:002016-07-06T13:26:34.819-05:00No disguise was necessary in the two books that I ...No disguise was necessary in the two books that I clearly remember. The machine was in the next room where the exams or testing took place. Each day/night it was aimed at the victim's desk/bed and turned on, then shut off at night or day when the victim went home from the targeted work space or woke up in the morning from the targeted bed.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-2641255101354882632016-07-06T12:58:51.329-05:002016-07-06T12:58:51.329-05:00Heck! That's quite a brutal way to go. Though ...Heck! That's quite a brutal way to go. Though it would be interesting to see how you would disguise an x ray machine, as I imagine they are quite big items. Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05616800837907092489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-23824129829194476352016-07-06T12:25:21.462-05:002016-07-06T12:25:21.462-05:00In the books and stories I've encountered &quo...In the books and stories I've encountered "x-ray poisoning" an x-ray machine is placed against the victim's work space or bedroom and the machine is turned on at a very high dose of radiation and aimed at a vital organ. There is probably an element of science fiction in actually causing such a swift death. In reality the victim would get extremely ill, receive burns and irreparable scarring, and probably end up with life threatening cancer. If the exposure to x-rays were not discovered early on then death would come, I imagine, after several months if not years.<br /><br />The closest to a murder using radioactivity I know of in real life was the horrible plutonium poisoning of the Russian spy. Of course he ingested the plutonium and it proved very fatal as well as being a health hazard to everyone on that airplane where he was a passenger.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-11712189516311457812016-07-06T10:58:17.574-05:002016-07-06T10:58:17.574-05:00Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose features an...Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose features an unusual way of administering poison. Bibliophiles might forgive it, though. Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies feature all kinds of strange and lethal devices: not just poisoned swords or drinks or poison poured into ears but poison on the lips of the skull of a murdered woman for example.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-34817403330168011842016-07-06T06:51:55.812-05:002016-07-06T06:51:55.812-05:00Amazing collection of really rare poisons/poison m...Amazing collection of really rare poisons/poison methods/books there - your knowledge is (as ever) sweeping... Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-82364446700254586992016-07-06T05:27:07.076-05:002016-07-06T05:27:07.076-05:00Great post. Enjoyed reading about the more unusual...Great post. Enjoyed reading about the more unusual poison methods, cat claws and bird beaks are definitely bizarre, as are x rays. Though you know have me wondering how you poison someone with x-rays? Is it just to do with radioactive elements of the machine?Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05616800837907092489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-50334543665343645422016-07-05T20:38:08.483-05:002016-07-05T20:38:08.483-05:00The "cat's ear as murder weapon" is ...The "cat's ear as murder weapon" is one of my favorites, John. The rabies one sounds horrifying! I agree with you: poison is the ickiest and cruelest of murder weapons!Brad (ahsweetmystery)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12012914349226406144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-3686437351483698662016-07-05T18:49:49.935-05:002016-07-05T18:49:49.935-05:00I love all the bizarre poison methods, John. Now y...I love all the bizarre poison methods, John. Now you've got me longing for more books again (and I've got about 17 birthday present books on their way to me by mail right this minute...).Bev Hankinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01127476456755776574noreply@blogger.com