A Surfeit of Cyanide: the murder of William Murfitt, 1938 by Mark John Maguire

There was far too much cyanide in Suffolk in 1938. People used to buy it over the counter to destroy wasps' nests in September. A shilling (5 pence) would purchase enough cyanide to kill 100 people. When William Murfitt came in to breakfast on the morning of 17th May 1938, he complained that his health salts "tasted funny". They smelled of bitter almonds too - the distinctive aroma of potassium cyanide. He was dead half an hour later. Scotland Yard was called in to investigate - they were quite sure of who the murderer was, but acquiring sufficient evidence for a court of law was quite a different matter...

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