Bakers Dozen

[Little_Nemo]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade

I think writers just love the way it sounds.

[Infovore]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic

[buddha_david]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum

[Elendil_s_Heir]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine

[Bayaker]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake

Nitpick: If you use nightshade it must always be phrased as deadly nightshade.

[Bullitt]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake
7. barium acetate

[Tangent]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake
7. barium acetate
8. Digitalis/Foxglove

[Blue_Blistering_Barnacle]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake
7. barium acetate
8. Digitalis/Foxglove
9. Potassium Chloride

[Elendil_s_Heir]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake
7. barium acetate
8. Digitalis/Foxglove
9. Potassium Chloride
10. Saxitoxin

Was in Francis Gary Powers’s kit at the time of the 1960 U-2 spyplane shootdown: Saxitoxin - Wikipedia

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake
7. barium acetate
8. Digitalis/Foxglove
9. Potassium Chloride
10. Saxitoxin
11. Cyanide

[gkster]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake
7. barium acetate
8. Digitalis/Foxglove
9. Potassium Chloride
10. Saxitoxin
11. Cyanide
12. Thallium

Its use in Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse inspired at least one murderer, but also prevented deaths when people who had read the book recognized thallium poisoning symptoms in real life cases.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

A Baker’s Dozen of Murder Mystery Lover’s Poisons

1. Curare
2. Belladonna/Nightshade
3. Arsenic
4. Laudanum
5. Strychnine
6. Venom from the boomslang snake
7. barium acetate
8. Digitalis/Foxglove
9. Potassium Chloride
10. Saxitoxin
11. Cyanide
12. Thallium
13. Swamp adder venom

From a fictional snake appearing in the Sherlock Holmes story “The Speckled Band.”

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Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates

[buddha_david]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes

[Infovore]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes
3. Simon and Garfunkel

[gkster]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes
3. Simon and Garfunkel
4. The Everly Brothers

[Little_Nemo]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes
3. Simon and Garfunkel
4. The Everly Brothers
5. Sam & Dave

- YouTube

[tripthicket]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes
3. Simon and Garfunkel
4. The Everly Brothers
5. Sam & Dave
6. The Carpenters

[Tangent]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes
3. Simon and Garfunkel
4. The Everly Brothers
5. Sam & Dave
6. The Carpenters
7. Captain and Tennille

[Bullitt]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes
3. Simon and Garfunkel
4. The Everly Brothers
5. Sam & Dave
6. The Carpenters
7. Captain and Tennille
8. The Judds

[NDP]

Musical duos

1. Hall and Oates
2. The White Stripes
3. Simon and Garfunkel
4. The Everly Brothers
5. Sam & Dave
6. The Carpenters
7. Captain and Tennille
8. The Judds
9. Ike and Tina Turner