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\\nIn 1876 London was riveted by the dramatic poisoning of a young barrister and the sordid revelations that emerged about his household. In today\'s show we\'ll review the baffling case of Charles Bravo\'s murder, which Agatha Christie called "one of the most mysterious poisoning cases ever recorded."
\\nWe\'ll also get an update on career possibilities for garden hermits and puzzle over how the police know that a shooting death is not a homicide.
\\nMany thanks to Ronald Hackston\\xa0for his evocative photo of The Priory, Balham, the site of Charles Bravo\'s unsolved 1876 poisoning.
\\nSources for that feature:
\\nJames Ruddick, Death at the Priory: Sex, Love, and Murder in Victorian England, 2001.
\\nChirag Trivedi, "Victorian Whodunnit Solved,"\\xa0BBC, Jan. 13, 2003 (accessed June 28, 2015).
\\n"The Bravo Inquiry" and "The Theory of Suicide in the Bravo Case,"\\xa0Medical Times and Gazette, Aug. 19, 1876.
\\nJoyce Emmerson Muddock, Pages From an Adventurous Life, 1907.
\\nListener mail:
\\nAmanda Williams, "Wanted: \'Outgoing\' Hermit,"\\xa0Daily Mail, May 5, 2014 (retrieved July 3, 2015).
\\nGreater Manchester News, "Hermit Wanted for Historic Gardens,"\\xa0July 3, 2009 (retrieved July 3, 2015).
\\n"Hermit Wanted for \'Ivory Tower\',"\\xa0BBC, July 1, 2009 (retrieved July 3, 2015).
\\nThis week\'s lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Sam B., who sent this corroborating link\\xa0(warning: this spoils the puzzle).
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