At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries From Today's Best Writers by Stabenow Dana

Author:Stabenow, Dana [Stabenow, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, anthology, Anthologies, forensics
ISBN: 9780786720552
Amazon: 0786720557
Goodreads: 3519558
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2008-11-03T08:00:00+00:00

Ten minutes later, Claire looked up from the book Danny had hustled to find. “Got you, you little bugger!” she said, triumphantly. “Abrus precatorius. That’s what we’re looking at. Listen . . . ” she read the plant’s description aloud to Mark and Danny. “Also known as the Jequirty bean. It’s a non-native, invasive plant here in Florida. If the shell is compromised, then ingesting a single pea can be fatal. And the poison, abrin, slows the metabolism as it kills.”

“Nasty stuff.” Mark said.

“This is probably the most dangerous plant we know of in this country. There’s almost no chance of surviving once a bean has been ingested. But poisonings are so rare we don’t normally test for abrin. No wonder we didn’t find it in the tox screenings.”

“So you think this is from a plant that grows on Tuscany’s grounds?”

She stared off into space for a long moment. “Yeah, but I can’t imagine all of these people picking beans off a plant and eating them. Can you?”

A memory tap-danced just out of reach and hard as Mark tried, he couldn’t access where he’d seen the little red bean before. “Let me take a look at the book,” he said.

Claire was still reading as she twisted the text to face him. “Interesting. Another name for the bean is the Rosary Pea because people use them—”

“Holy shit,” Mark said.

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