She writes vividly and with great humor, combining detailed research with easy narrative, making her book both enthralling and sinister. As a writer, Eleanor Herman has a British sensibility in her choice of metaphor or quirky oddity. The most satanic are the lethal methods used against anti-Putin activists. Certainly the most chilling are the contemporary stories of political poisoning, such as the mysterious fate of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and the brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Lesser-known characters are also given their due. Some of the most fascinating chapters are devoted to scientific explanations to the mysterious deaths of Edward VI, Caravaggio, Mozart and Napoleon. The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder. The resulting harvest is a collection of stories about powerful people cut down before their time. Murder in the Garden of God - Ebook written by Eleanor Herman. With grisly enthusiasm, the author has devoured medical journals, autopsy reports, papers from the University of Maryland’s annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference and tomes bearing such tiles as The History of Corpse Medicine.
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