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I think poison was actually a fairly fashionable method of murder in 1920s and 1930s mystery fiction: Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and and Margery Allingham all had some fairly complicated poison plots. For Christie, I think it was at least partly a case of ‘write what you know’, since she worked as a hospital dispenser during World War I and was presumably very familiar with the possibilities of the prescribed drugs of the time.
I think poison was actually a fairly fashionable method of murder in 1920s and 1930s mystery fiction: Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and and Margery Allingham all had some fairly complicated poison plots. For Christie, I think it was at least partly a case of ‘write what you know’, since she worked as a hospital dispenser during World War I and was presumably very familiar with the possibilities of the prescribed drugs of the time.