In it, readers will not only find out about who could’ve poisoned whom, but also why and with what. This fantastic work combines morbid curiosity and royal gossip. Luckily, we have New York Times-bestselling author Eleanor Herman to help us navigate an aspiring widow’s bulging cabinet of nasty concoctions with her new book, The Royal Art of Poison. It may also grab our attention now because, as during the Renaissance, poison is a signifier of turbulent times and childish despots. It’s easy to see why it captures the imagination: Put a little drop of something-something in somebody’s champagne, and poof! They die horribly a few hours later, no need for brute strength or bloody cleanup. From Joffrey Lannister’s purple-colored demise on HBO’s “Game of Thrones” to the recent poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, which sent Russian-British relations into a tailspin, perhaps the ghoulish appeal of poison is making a comeback.
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