{"id":15443,"date":"2026-01-20T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15443"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:41:21","slug":"how-agatha-christie-poisoned-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15443","title":{"rendered":"How Agatha Christie poisoned people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/miVg3eiW_Rc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Agatha Christie is the master of the murder mystery. Over the dozens and dozens of people that died in her books &#8211; many were killed with poisons and chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But did you know that Agatha Christie\u2019s poisons were accurate because she actually knew about them as a medical chemist? She worked in a chemist dispensary early in her life and passed her exams to making drugs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, chemist Kathryn Harkup describes 4 particularly interesting poisons used in her books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agatha Christie is the master of the murder mystery. Over the dozens and dozens of people that died in her books &#8211; many were killed with poisons and chemistry. But did you know that Agatha Christie\u2019s poisons were accurate because she actually knew about them as a medical chemist? She worked in a chemist dispensary early in her life and passed her exams to making drugs. In this video, chemist Kathryn Harkup describes 4 particularly interesting poisons used in her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15443\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-415","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15444,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions\/15444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}