Discover how Agatha Christie’s background as a dispensary assistant shaped her deadly plots. Explore the poisons behind her mysteries and how they drive the cases of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Discover how Agatha Christie’s background as a dispensary assistant shaped her deadly plots. Explore the poisons behind her mysteries and how they drive the cases of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Sylvia A. Pamboukian is a university professor of English and director of the University Honors Program at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She holds a doctorate in English and Victorian studies from Indiana University Bloomington, a master’s degree in English from Western University, and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Toronto. Her most recent book, Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison, was shortlisted for Book of the Year by the Crime Fiction Studies Association, and her chapter on Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle was named one of the Essays of the Year by the Arthur Conan Doyle Society.
