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The Real Poisons Behind Agatha Christie’s Murders

This video explores the real poisons behind Agatha Christie’s murders and how they connect to early 20th-century medical history, forensic science, and crime. Drawing on Christie’s experience as a dispenser during the First World War and in hospital pharmacies, we look at the actual compounds she used in her detective novels—arsenic, cyanide, strychnine, digitalis, and more—and how accurately she portrayed their symptoms, timing, and effects. Blending literary analysis with historical research, the documentary traces how changing drug regulations, over-the-counter medicines, and advances in toxicology shaped both real criminal cases and Christie’s fictional plots. Along the way, it highlights key moments in the history of poison, the rise of the poisoner in crime fiction, and the reasons Christie’s meticulous, quietly clinical approach to murder still feels unsettlingly real today.