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How Many Apple Pips Will It Take To Kill You?

, Regular readers of detective fiction will soon discover that many of the stories are laced with poison, cyanide, arsenic, and strychnine being especially favoured. It is a useful device because administering a poison, while requiring a certain degree of guile and some planning, does not require much in the way of brawn. Whereas a form of murder which requires the application of physical force…