Stephen Cox Author<p>Two weeks before <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheCrookedMedium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrookedMedium</span></a>... I write about how C19th tech leaves plenty of room for the gifted amateur. <br>Yuckiest fact.</p><p>Smell/taste stomach contents etc / feed to rats - tests for poisons + sedatives. Eww.</p><p>Full post </p><p><a href="https://stephencox.co.uk/the-sleuth-the-scientist-and-the-victorian-criminal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stephencox.co.uk/the-sleuth-th</span><span class="invisible">e-scientist-and-the-victorian-criminal/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Victorian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Historical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Historical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spooky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spooky</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenSleuths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenSleuths</span></a></p><p>“The Paris Police Laboratory”, Ferdinand Gueldry, via artvee. (1887)</p>