Deadly doses: a writer's guide to poisons

A short history of the dreaded art

The classic poisons: arsenic, cyanide, and strychnine

Household poisons

Poisonous plants

Fragile fungi

Snakes, spiders, and other living things

Medical poisons

Pesticides

Industrial poisons

Street drugs

Create your own poison

Appendixes

Poisons by method of administration

Poisons by form

Poisons by the symptoms they cause

Poisons by the time in which they react

Poisons by toxicity rating.