Katrina Gulliver

Mass poisonings in a small town in Hungary

When a midwife in Nagyrév started doling out arsenic in 1911, dozens more women followed suit, until the death toll became impossible to ignore

Four of the accused women at their trial for murder in Nagyrév in December 1929. [Getty Images] 
issue 11 March 2023

  • The Angel Makers

    Patti McCracken

    Mudlark, pp. 432, £16

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