Print version: Price, Cheryl Blake. Chemical crimes : science and poison in Victorian crime fiction. Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, c2019 194 pages ISBN 9780814213919
Includes bibliographical references and index
"The science of murder": educating the female chemical criminal in L.E.L.’s Ethel Churchill and Bulwer’s Lucretia -- Medical bluebeards: Gothic medicine and the poisoning doctor in the fiction of Ellen Wood -- Chemicalized bodies and criminal intent: unruly bodies and the limitations of forensic science in early detective fiction -- L.T. Meade’s female mad scientists: science fiction and the transformation of the chemical criminal in fin de siecle detective fiction.