Mcfarland And Company, Inc. Dying for chocolate: cordelia botkin and the 1898 poisoned candy murders, paperback/kerry segrave

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On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in the mail from an anonymous sender.

Within days, two of the seven family members were dead; the other five became ill but recovered.

The search for the perpetrator soon moved from Delaware to California, where a suspect was quickly identified: Cordelia Botkin, lover of the husband of one of the poisoned women.

This book chronicles the shoddy investigation that led to Botkin's indictment an.