Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry, Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata
Abstract
Agatha Christie is known as the queen of crime. She has written numerous novels, short stories, plays and travelogue. Her work has been translated in several languages across the world, holding a Guiness World Record of maximum sold novelist. Her uniqueness as a novelist was partly due to her innovative and realistic ways of committing a murder. Poison was her favourite method. In order to be creative she has used various plant based poisons. This article takes a quantitative and objective look at the extensive use of phyto toxins in her work in a comprehensive way.
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