Though they abound in detective fiction, police toxicologists are rare in the U. S. When the police of almost any big city want to know what poison was used or what drug taken in a puzzling crime, they must apply to the faculty of some medical school or to a commercial laboratory. One of the few cities with an official toxicologist is New York, which has Dr. Alexander Oscar Gettler, a hard-bitten professor who teaches chemistry at New York University when he is not sleuthing for the city with his test-tubes. Last week Dr....
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