Poisoned History is about poisons and how they have been used for nefarious purposes throughout history. Listen to true crime with commentary from a chemist's perspective. Don't worry, we don't nerd out *all* the time...
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Today we are doing our annual Fake Crime show, this time it’s a short story by Agatha Christie called the Chocolate Box. We are switching roles for this episode; our resident Christie/Poirot expert Mary Ann is going to host.
Sources and resources:
Poirot, Season 5, Episode 6, The Chocolate Box. Episode aired Feb 21, 1993. Broadcast by PBS and A&E; Starring: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot; Producers: LWT and ITV Studios
Agatha Christie, The Clue of the Chocolate Box; 1923 magazine story in The Sketch, UK.
Agatha Christie, The Chocolate Box, published in 1925 in a book of short stories called Poirot Investigates, Dodd, Mead, and Company, United States.
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