Question about Poisoning

Other than bacon for breakfast, cheeseburgers for lunch, and a chicken-fried steak for dinner?

Seriously, I've thought that it would be interesting to use a vitamin overdose as a murder weapon. Vitamin A in its pure form will kill you if you massively overdose.

I'm not sure about the use in the kitchen, but try oleander, it's toxic and I remember someone mentioned that it's not easily detected (unless of course they're looking for it, even then I'm not sure whether it shows up in the blood and for how long ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleander

Guess I have to consider this, too... not in the kitchen, though...

Cheers,
Barbara

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Firstly, arsenic is completely indestinguishable from sugar in taste. Only your innards know the difference.

Second, Black Nightshade, aka Deadly Nightshade. The berries are toxic, unless you boil them first. I do believe, though I'm not certian, that even one or two berries are lethal. But, apparently, after boiled long enough to neutralize the toxins, they make an exelent pie.

Third, found this in a British TV series. A mushroom caled "Destroying Angel" It tastes fairly good, but it does REALLY nasty things to you. Basically gives you a stomach flu for about three days, when there's a remission, but a false one. After that it basically destroys the liver. If you've already started vomiting as a reaction to ingesting the mushroom, you're doomed. And it's a long, slow death.

Let's see... Even salt or water, if you have enough, can be deadly...

Vitamin C, Iron, Vitamin A, Valerian root, some kind of Juniper berry that's not processed correctly. There's a whole mess of mushrooms that will do it. Monk's Hood, the source of digitalis (a heart drug), looks just like Jack in the Pulpit.

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Thank you all so much for your help and suggestions! I'll post again once I figure out which ones to use ( 4 different murders in one book).

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Here's a strange one. Figuring out how to use it is a bit of a challenge. Azeala and rhodendron flowers are so poisonous that even the honey made from the pollen of the plants is reportedly deadly. The problem is that it takes more than the usual amount of planning to set up a bee keeping operation near poisonous plants, harvest and bottle the honey, and then somehow get it into the appropriate victim. But if you had a baker who was a avid user of natural local honey, you might be able to find a way to have the murderer doctor a jar of freshly opened honey to make the poisoning look accidental.

Kitchens offer lots of options outside of poisoning. A favorite from an old British mystery is a housewife who murders her husband by hitting him with a leg of lamb, then sticks the lamb in the oven. She procedes to server the murder weapon to the detectives working on the case making it difficult for them to locate the proper "blunt instrustment."

Marie

If you're feeling nasty, serve them some Rhubarb pie with the stems of the plant inside - it's known as a strong laxative, and the leaves, given the right situations, can actually kill. Now that would be a nasty mess for detectives.......

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Give your victim a nice allergy to something like shellfish and then all you would have to do is use a little shrimp stock in a bowl of chili and it’s flowers and slow music and no one else would be affected that ate the meal. So you could even kill someone in a college cafeteria.

Bon Appetit.

You know, I was thinking poison, but the food allergy might work for my murder. Thanks for posting that!

Ororo

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Just a side note about Valerian. IT STINKS!! I say it smells like manure, my friends say stinky feet. Either way it's a very distict and not so pleasent smell.

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