Ep 105 - Wicked Wallpaper & Mary Ann Burdock's Colourful Crimes

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We're back with Season 3, and have a bumper episode for you looking at the Victorian penchant for poisonous wallpaper, and the case of killer landlady Mary Ann Burdock.

Where do deadly dyes come from? Was Napoleon killed by his own house? And what did Mary Ann put into her tenant's gruel?

The secret ingredient is...green!

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
The Dante
The Poisoners Martini

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