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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

4.0

This book made me intensely grateful that I live in the modern day. The descriptions of “filthy palaces” have forever changed how I will view the depictions of grandeur in both film and literature of the legendary royal courts of Europe. I also found it amazing to learn just how many varied ways there were to slowly kill yourself unknowingly and over time in historical times.