The Husband Poisoner is about lethal ladies and dangerously tasty recipes
- Written by Rachel Franks, Conjoint Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
Unsplash/Sunbeam Photography, CC BYBook review: The Husband Poisoner, by Tanya Bretherton (Hachette).
Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduces her iconic Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and features her famous quip: “poison is a woman’s weapon”.
Of course, poison — sometimes...





