eBooks on the "Down Low"

I'm finishing Elena Santangelo's Poison to Purge Melancholy , which I bought at Malice Domestic this year. I'm enjoying the way she works poisons into the historical subplot and how readily available those poisons were in the 1700s. Even before I started reading it, I had heard a NPR radio interview with Deborah Blum on her new book about poisons and forensic science in New York City in the 1920s.

I'm not a CSI TV show watcher; in fact I don't think I've watched a cop show since "Hill Street Bl...