Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by C. J. S. Thompson is about a sensationalist popular history of poisoning covering mythology, criminology, and many other interesting side topics. Contents: “Poisons of Antiquity, Poisons and Superstition, Royal and Historic Poisoners, Professional Poisoners, Poisoning Plots, Concerning Arsenic, The Strange Case of Madame Lafarge, The Case of Madeline Smith, The Maybrick Case, About Aconite and Hemlock.”