A Conversation with “League of Lady Poisoners” Author Lisa Perrin
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
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Summary
Poison is a bad way to go. Overtime, poisoning has become known as a "feminine" mode of murder. But do the facts support that contention? And what are some of the stories behind the most famous poisoners in history? Are there lesser-known cases that are just as interesting? What motivates somebody to start dabbling in poisons?
We were fortunate enough to speak about all these topics with author and illustrator Lisa Perrin. She recently published a wonderful book called The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women, filled with beautiful — and spooky — illustrations and fascinating stories about toxins, trauma, and torturous murder.
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| 0:00.0 | Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murders and domestic abuse. |
| 0:06.0 | Murder weapons come in all shapes and sizes. |
| 0:10.0 | But throughout history, one of the most potent and feared killing methods has been poison. |
| 0:17.0 | Tipping a toxin into a target's food or drink and watching them succumb. |
| 0:22.0 | Poison has often been characterized as a so-called woman's weapon in popular culture. |
| 0:27.0 | We are always looking to interview authors of books on crime. |
| 0:32.0 | Recently we have the absolute pleasure of getting to talk to author and illustrator Lisa Perrin. |
| 0:38.0 | Her new book, The League of Lady Poisoners, illustrated true stories of Dangerous Women, came out very recently. |
| 0:46.0 | It features beautiful illustrations and chilling tales of all sorts of poisoners. |
| 0:51.3 | We love this book. It was chock full of mind-blowing stories we'd never heard of before. |
| 0:57.0 | And that is saying something because we're nerds about both crime and history. |
| 1:01.0 | We hope you enjoy our conversation with Lisa as much as we did and |
| 1:05.0 | check out her book. We'll include a link in our show notes. My name is Anya Kane. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm a journalist. And I'm Kevin Greenlee I'm an attorney and this is the murder sheet |
| 1:15.3 | we're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting interviews and deep |
| 1:20.5 | dives into murder cases where Where the murder sheet. |
| 1:24.0 | And this is a conversation with League of Lady Poisoners author Lisa Perrin. You're So, Oh, How did you decide to do a book on this topic? I know in the acknowledgments you mentioned your friend Sarah, |
| 2:22.6 | sent you an article on the famous lady poisoner |
| 2:26.3 | Julia Tifana, but can you talk us through the inspiration |
| 2:29.7 | for this? |
| 2:30.8 | Sure, and thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, that's a great question. I think it's everyone's first question. It's like, why? Why write a book about poison? Like, you seem like a nice lady, like that's that's a that's a choice so like you said I do mention at the |
| 2:46.2 | acknowledgments at the end of the book that my best friend who's also like my like creative |
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