Sayers, Dorothy

Sayers, Dorothy L. and Eustace, Robert. The Documents in the Case. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London. 1978. 

Bitter Almonds, In the Teeth of the Evidence, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1939. 

Is it chiral How many stereoisomers of this structure are possible An interesting murder mystery, which you might enjoy reading and which depends for its solution on the distinction between optically active and racemic forms of this poison, is Dorothy L. Sayers s The Documents in the Case, published in paperback by Avon Books. (See an article by H. Hart, Accident, Suicide, or Murder A Question of Stereochemistry /. Chem. Educ., 1975,52,444.)... 

PROBLEM 4.58 In Dorothy Sayers and Robert Eustace s mystery novel, The Documents in the Case (Harper Paperbacks, 1995), mushroom expert George Harrison is murdered by Harwood Latham. Latham doses Harrison s stew of Amanita rubescens with muscarine, the toxin of the related, but deadly. Amanita muscaria. Lathom hopes to make it look like an acci-... 

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