Sue wrote:
<I wonder if this is the correct spelling. If you let me know the name of
the
Agatha Christie, I may have the book and can look up her spelling of the
poison. I guess I'll need to know the character's name too>
I found it! The spelling is Veronal and it was the first commercially
marketed barbiturate. The book is "Thirteen at Dinner, also known as "Lord
Edgware Dies". Lord Edgeware's wife, Jane Wilkinson, gets an actress
Carlotta Adams to impersonate her at a dinner party, giving her an alibi
while she kills her husband. She then poisons Carlotta with Veronal and
leavs a gold case containing the drug in Carlotta's handbag to make it look
as if she was adicted to it.
Sue saying she needed the name of the book put me on the track of it.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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