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Murder mystery!
1 posted on 02/09/2012 9:41:46 PM PST by BlackVeil
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Book sales!


2 posted on 02/09/2012 9:50:51 PM PST by ransomnote
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Wowsers!


3 posted on 02/09/2012 9:51:52 PM PST by Beowulf9
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I’ll have to ask my uncle who says he knew her.


4 posted on 02/09/2012 9:53:41 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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If true, not surprising.

Arsenic seems to be responsible for many deaths in that era.


5 posted on 02/09/2012 9:59:43 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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I know I lose many nights sleep over her death.


6 posted on 02/09/2012 10:11:18 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: BlackVeil
In the early 19th century a lot of people were getting away with murder with arsenic as a weapon, because it wasn’t until the Marsh test was developed in 1836 that human remains could be analysed for the presence of arsenic

Interesting.

But nothing quite compares to polonium. Just ask Vlad.

7 posted on 02/09/2012 10:17:54 PM PST by cynwoody
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“Was Jane Austen Murdered?”

Yes, I flew into a murderous rage after being forced to read Sense and Sensibility in a college class.


8 posted on 02/09/2012 10:30:15 PM PST by Apollo5600
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Exhume! Exhume! Exhume!


9 posted on 02/09/2012 10:37:19 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Emily Bronte had Heathcliff dispatch her and steal the original manuscript, which she later claimed as her own original story ..../S

Or sumpin lack that....


10 posted on 02/09/2012 10:42:49 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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I know it sounds weird but some people were actually addicted to arsenic, especially in Victorian times. Maybe she was hooked and OD’ed. Some thought it was a cure-all. Every time I think about it I think of the equivalent of drinking draino today and surviving — yuck. James Maybrick, wealthy cotton buyer from England, died of arsenic poisoning and his American wife was convicted of the crime, although later released. He seemed to be an addict to the point where he could take enough to kill himself on a daily basis but didn’t die until he way upped his dose. Interesting fact some think he was Jack the Ripper. Some also think his wife really did kill him.


14 posted on 02/09/2012 10:57:00 PM PST by MacMattico
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Placemarker


15 posted on 02/09/2012 11:01:01 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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Placemarker


16 posted on 02/09/2012 11:01:01 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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CSI: Cold Case


20 posted on 02/09/2012 11:28:33 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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arsenic back then was a common medicine, so if the body showed arsenic it would prove nothing.

and chronic arsenic poisoning would cause some of the symptoms, but if you wanted to murder someone with arsenic, you give them a lot of it all at once.

The skin discoloration is felt to be due to Addison’s disease, which was more common in the past from adrenal tuberculosis.

The guy is just trying to sell books.


21 posted on 02/10/2012 12:49:43 AM PST by LadyDoc
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(I know, not an Austen work, but you get the idea)

Season 2 in a nutshell:

"I'm dying!"

"No, I'm dying!"

"I will marry you."

"No, I will marry that other one!"

"No, I'm dying!"

there. you're welcome.

24 posted on 02/10/2012 6:34:36 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Arsenic and Old Case.


25 posted on 02/10/2012 7:06:27 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Austen Space.)
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