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A Methodist minister, a mysterious Frenchwoman, a solicitor, a brace of housekeepers, and a recently discharged soldier: what links them? Being accused of murder by poison. Poisoning represents the ultimate domestic murder. Many alleged crimes - the death of Edwin Bartlett, the fate of Mabel Greenwood – remain notorious to this day. Others, such as the mysterious case of James Gilpin and his apparently tragic taste for cheese, and the curious fate of the Bingham family, have passed into obscurity. The author is the first person to track down the accused in the very first murder described...

"Voice of the Old Wolf," originally published in 1996, is the only full-length biography of Lucullus V. McWhorter (1860-1944). The Yakima area rancher met and befriended Yakima and Nez Perce warriors in 1903, forming deep relationships and accumulating facts, stories, and perspectives that would otherwise have been irretrievably lost. Adopted as a tribe member, he served as a stirring spokesman for non-treaty bands and captured prominent Nez Perce voices in his classic Western histories, "Yellow Wolf" (1940) and "Hear Me, My Chiefs " (1952). This edition includes a new foreword describing the...