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From arsenic and strychnine to cyanide and sarin. In his new book, chemist Vladimir Sargsyan tells the stories of poisons and the murders committed with their help.

How did Socrates die and how was Hamlet the Elder poisoned? Is it possible to get poisoned by water? How did Hercule Poirot expose the murderers and in which Flaubert text should we look for an absolutely correct description of death from arsenic poisoning? From the victims of the famous milady from Dumas's novels to those affected by common salt. The frontlines of the First World War, an attack in the Tokyo subway, chemical warfare poisons and mass suicides - chemist Vladimir Sargsyan tells about all this.