On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in the mail from an anonymous sender.
This book chronicles the shoddy investigation that led to Botkin\'s indictment an.
The search for the perpetrator soon moved from Delaware to California, where a suspect was quickly identified: Cordelia Botkin, lover of the husband of one of the Poisoned women.
Within days, two of the seven family members were dead; the other five became ill but recovered.
On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in the mail from an anonymous sender