![]() ![]() And yet all this light cast a very dark shadow: New York was (and still is, in the way of all major metropolises) riddled with crime. It was during this time that the myth of New York as a place of new beginnings and dreams-come-true first began to take shape, as industrialists made their fortunes and immigrants, drawn by the wealth and business made by aforementioned industrialists, came to the United States seeking a better life, hoping to gain a slice of that seemingly endless good fortune for themselves. New York during the Jazz Age (the late 1910s into the early 1930s) was simultaneously dazzlingly brilliant, and also dangerously dark. I am, however, at my happiest when I can find something that combines as many of my favorite subjects as possible, so when I came across The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum, I knew I had to give it a shot. ![]() And then I graduated to Sherlock Holmes, which proved to be even more fascinating and involved than Nancy Drew, and this, along with a steady diet of Agatha Christie and some of my mother’s pulpy thriller novels, have ensured my lifelong love with the mystery genre in all its forms.īut for all my love of fiction, I also have a deep, abiding love of science and history, both of which constitute the bulk of my non-fiction reading whenever I get the chance to come across books that pique my interest. ![]() In the Nancy Drew books, the eponymous heroine always seemed to be able to figure out who committed the crime, and the process of solving the crime was always the most fascinating bit for me. Since I picked up the Nancy Drew books in third grade, I have been fascinated by crime – not to commit it, but to solve it. ![]()
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