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Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer-Prize winning science writer and the author of five books, most recently the best-seller, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. She writes for a range of publications including The New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times (and even the literary journal, Tin House). She is currently working on a sixth book about poisonous food.

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A Toast to Mike the Durable

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The Arsenic Diet

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Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder

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Chemistry by Candlelight

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Let Them Eat Lead

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Poisoning the Dalai Lama. Or Not

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National Poison Prevention Week

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Plumb Crazy

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Download the (e-book) Universe

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On Rice and Arsenic

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Arsenic and the Forgotten Serial Killer

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A Chemical-Free Note

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Pet Poisoners, a postscript

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The Pet Poisoner Next Door

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The Chemical Me (2011 edition)