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...mystery is a bit formulaic: after several people display powerful motives to kill him, an eminent attorney collapses of an apparent heart attack. A canny elder discovers that the death was murder by poison, then proves that the killing is linked to a point of law. The villain is dragged in from relative obscurity near the end, and the summing-up could be briefer. But the characters are portrayed with wickedly informed satire, and by the rueful conclusion, Murphy has exhibited more than enough potential to do for the legal world what the tongue-in-cheek Emma Lathen mysteries have...
...characters ring true, but they are not especially interesting. That, however, seems to be part of his strategy. The grayness of this humdrum world only makes the clashing colors of the Kabbelskis' lives more compelling. Keneally's real triumph is to portray, through one family's delusions, the lingering poison of war and betrayal among generations who outwardly appear to have escaped...
...caller named stores in Houston and Orlando, where he said he placed capsules laced with cyanide or rat poison. Investigators initially found capsules spiked with sugar and cornstarch. The adulteration was easily detected. The man had crudely cut into the plastic blisters encasing the capsules. Said SmithKline's James Russo: "We're not talking about someone with exquisite skill for hiding what he is doing...
...first the company stopped short of a recall, telling retailers only to stop selling the drugs until further notice and warning consumers against using any of the capsules purchased after March 15. At week's end, however, laboratory tests found nonlethal doses of warfarin, an anticoagulant used in rat poison, in two Contac and three Teldrin capsules. SmithKline was frightened into acting. Said Company President Henry Wendt: "Between his claims about cyanide and the findings of warfarin, we feel we didn't have a choice...
Since the poisoned painkiller had been enclosed within Tylenol's three tamper-resistant seals, investigators turned their attention to the plant in Fort Washington, Pa., where they were manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Products. The poison, with a different chemical makeup from the cyanide involved in the 1982 killings, differed as well from the cyanide stored at the plant for testing. The company also began a review of its storage and distribution facilities and personnel files of about 30,000 U.S. employees...