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I agree that this book is pretty comprehensive; it's a good overview for someone beginning to think about poisons for the first time. Just remember if you are not trained in handling hazardous substances you are much more likely to kill yourself than anyone else. It may seem obvious, but it bears repeating: non-professionals should not fool around with poison gas. With the possible exception of some of the vegetable poisons, the dangers far outweigh any possible enlightment or profit or educational value you could hope to gain by working through these procedures.
The chapter on autopsies fails to address recent improvements in forensic technology. This is not really Uncle Fester's fault because this field changes so quickly, but readers need to know that it's much harder to avoid detection now than it was even a few years ago when the updated edition was written, which was before the full "mainstreaming" of trace DNA analysis (PCR etc). It is just about impossible, for instance, to plant a poison-gas grenade as described in chapter 3 without leaving DNA, even if you are careful not to leave fingerprints. Just breathing on an object will leave your mark, even if you wear a surgical mask. Commercial interactions are also harder to conceal than Uncle Fester seems to think. If you buy the seeds of toxic plants from any online or mail-order vendor your name will be on a searchable list in a government computer; then it only takes a possible motive to make some investigator's list of possible suspects. And then it's only a matter of time.
But the core take-home point of this book still applies: it is way too easy for a motivated undetered sociopath to kill people, individually or in groups. Read it and remember how fragile you are.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970148534/ref=pd_sim_books_2/002-8907253-9636021?v=glance&s=books
Silent Death - Second Edition.
