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Annelie Geissler |
THE ROYAL ART OF POISON
Bestselling author Eleanor Herman traces the use of poison as a political—and even, cosmetic—tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.
From the dawn of human history, poison has been used to remove romantic rivals, open up desirable positions, and speed up inheritances. Though rumors of poison flew across Europe whenever a young royal died, the autopsy usually revealed nothing more than the ineptitude of the doctors performing it. By the nineteenth century, science had largely caught up to poisoning.
Vaults contain great treasures, not in gold, but in bones, as modern technology can now tell us much about the lives—and deaths—of royals. Here, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensics to tell a story of murder, scandal, and madness, offering a startling look into how royals operated—and how they really died.
Eleanor Herman is the New York Times bestselling author of SEX WITH KINGS and SEX WITH QUEENS, non-fiction works on the love lives of European royals through the centuries, and MISTRESS OF THE VATICAN, the biography of a woman who ran the Catholic Church in the 17th century for her reputed lover, Pope Innocent. In 2015 her first YA novel came out, LEGACY OF KINGS, first of the four-book Blood of Gods and Royals series, on the adventures of Alexander the Great at sixteen. It has been optioned by the WB network for a TV series. She has appeared on the National Geographic Channel and The History Channel to comment about historical matters, and is a frequent speaker at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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Published 2018-06-01 by St. Martin's Press |