tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post6193210147204981576..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Murder weapons - Michelle LovricMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-50723293080731113792014-08-11T17:36:38.860+01:002014-08-11T17:36:38.860+01:00thank you, lovely and dangerous ladies. You're...thank you, lovely and dangerous ladies. You're a terrible bad lot! I'm lucky that I can call on my father, who's a paediatric haematologist, who never flinches from my questions. The Wellcome Trust can answer all the others. michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-66522375628894102852014-08-11T13:44:02.343+01:002014-08-11T13:44:02.343+01:00Be afraid, gentle readers - be very afraid!Be afraid, gentle readers - be very afraid!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-38698969211952791902014-08-11T12:16:02.049+01:002014-08-11T12:16:02.049+01:00Great blog! And I resonated it, since I am always ...Great blog! And I resonated it, since I am always trying to think of ways (both natural and unnatural) of killing people. Even if one knows how they died (for example, in an air-raid) one still has to work out how it happened. I used to phone up a friend who was a doctor, but then I realised she was dreading my phone calls, so I do the research on the Internet, or contact my fellow-authors, who are greatly ingenious, as Michelle has demonstrated!Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-50423849373386660172014-08-10T21:50:04.342+01:002014-08-10T21:50:04.342+01:00Loved the post too, Michelle! - My latest book has...Loved the post too, Michelle! - My latest book has quite a few murders, come to think of it. One is committed with hollow hazel nuts - the kind hollowed out by mice. They have been used to store wolfsbane (your aconite by another name.) It's been prepared for use as a painkiller, mixed with lard, and sealed in the hollow nuts with beeswax.<br /><br />A few of these nuts are dropped into hot, highly spiced stew (which disguises the taste of the poison - although aconite is said to taste sweet 'at first.') The wax and lard melt, releasing the poison...which is deadly and fast-acting, as I'm sure you know, Michelle!<br /><br />Several other characters are also dispatched by longbow.<br /><br />I was rather pleased by my poisoning but can't match your sustained inventiveness!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-86964538498952012832014-08-10T10:52:44.804+01:002014-08-10T10:52:44.804+01:00Loved this post...esp the illustrations! And your ...Loved this post...esp the illustrations! And your inventiveness, as ever, leaves me breathless....And Love all that hair on the last cover...I am assuming it's either the US edition or a paperback! Way to go!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-21255534475197510132014-08-10T09:39:42.754+01:002014-08-10T09:39:42.754+01:00Sue, I have never torn out anyone's throat. Co...Sue, I have never torn out anyone's throat. Consider yourself an accomplished murderess!michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-54252174651239510292014-08-10T09:38:32.969+01:002014-08-10T09:38:32.969+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-2664419481258904642014-08-10T09:37:50.317+01:002014-08-10T09:37:50.317+01:00I'll raise you a Venetian spritz, Carol. Such ...I'll raise you a Venetian spritz, Carol. Such a lovely colour, like diluted blood ...michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-33523714170474982632014-08-10T08:58:45.607+01:002014-08-10T08:58:45.607+01:00Well, I won't be dropping by for a glass of Pr...Well, I won't be dropping by for a glass of Prosecco with you, Michelle. Or I might just take you to a banquet in a vineyard to drink bubbly and we'll see who survives…<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11013536/Growth-in-Prosecco-vineyards-blamed-for-deaths-of-four-people-in-flash-floods.html<br />I have been considering similar character fates to above...Carol Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05837854482139736944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-48080551284079586802014-08-10T01:59:52.309+01:002014-08-10T01:59:52.309+01:00Unfair! I've only done one book of crime and i...Unfair! I've only done one book of crime and it was non fiction. But I did kill off the villain of my one novel by Wild Hunt(he was in wolf shape at the time) and another character had his throat torn out by said villain. My short fiction doesn't have any deaths that I recall.<br /><br />You have a gruesome imagination, ma'am! Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com