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	Chocolate
		Chocolate is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets -- one of the most popular in the world -- made from the fermented, roasted, and ground seeds of the tropical cacao tree Theobroma cacao.
		The Aztecs associated chocolate with Xochiquetzal, the goddess of fertility.
		Chocolate is very mildly psychoactive since it contains theobromine, small quantities of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid[?] found in the brain, as well as caffeine and tryptophan.
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	chocolate Information Center - charlie and the chocolate factory
		Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted and ground beans taken from the pod of the tropical cacao tree Theobroma cacao native to Central America.
		Chocolate of this quality is often compared to fine wine because subtleties in taste are usually apparent, especially given the variety of semisweet and bittersweet couvertures with different percentages of sugar and chocolate liquor.
		If they are fed chocolate, chocolate cake recipe the theobromine will remain in their bloodstream for up to 20 hours, and these animals may experience epileptic seizures, heart attacks, internal bleeding, and eventually history of chocolate death.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Chemistry_Topics_C_-_Cl/chocolate.html (3416 words)

	Wikinfo \| Poison
		In the context of biology, poisons are substances that cause injury, illness, or death to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale.
		Within chemistry and physics, a poison is a substance that obstructs or inhibits a reaction, for example by binding to a catalyst.
		Poison is also the name of a US rock band active in the 1980s and 1990s.
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	Articles Resources
		Chocolate, when not produced in "bars" or other geometric shapes, is often produced in the form of small molded forms (usually of animals or people), for example as rabbit- or egg-shaped chocolates, near Easter, and other shapes for Christmas and Saint Nicholas.
		In fact, chocolate of this quality is often compared to tasting fine wine because subtleties in taste are often apparent, especially when you taste a variety of semisweet and bittersweet couvertures with different percentages of sugar and chocolate liquor.
		Chocolate is actually toxic to all animals, but the average human being would have to eat about 20 pounds of chocolate in one sitting (a nearly impossible feat) to be affected.
	www.chocolatefountainsdelite.com /articles/All-About-Chocolate_9.html (2561 words)

	Chocolate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Chocolate was discovered by early Mesoamerican civilization and cultivated by ancient Mayans and Aztecs, who used it as a basic component in a variety of sauces and beverages.
		Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted, and ground beans taken from the pod of the tropical cacao tree, Theobroma cacao, which was native to Central America and Mexico, but is now cultivated throughout the tropics.
		Chocolate is often produced as small molded forms in the shape of animals, people, or inanimate objects to celebrate festivals worldwide.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Chocolate (4242 words)

	Chocolate Resource Page - charlie and the choclate factory
		Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted, and ground beans taken from the pod of the tropical cacao tree Theobroma cacao native to Central America, which has an intensely flavoured bitter taste.
		Working the melted chocolate on a heat-absorbing surface, such as a stone slab, until thickening indicates the presence of sufficient crystal "seed"; the chocolate is then gently warmed to working temperature.
		Unless the chocolate is specifically labelled as vegan, another complication for strict vegans is that the sugar used in a particular chocolate may have been processed with bone char.
	www.globalcpr.com /Chocolate.html (3987 words)

	Toxin
		The onset of symptoms of poisoning may be rapid and swiftly lead to illness or death.
		Examples are poisoning due to inhalation of hydrogen cyanide or injection of potassium chloride.
		This is known as chronic poisoning and is most common for poisons that bioaccumulate.
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	directopedia : Directory : Home : Cooking : Chocolate
		Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted, and ground beans taken from the pod of the tropical cacao tree Theobroma cacao native to Central America which have an intensely flavoured bitter taste.
		Chocolate truffles typically have a thin shell of chocolate with a soft center.
		These chocolates contain a high percentage of chocolate liquor (sometimes 70 percent or more) as well as cocoa butter, at least 30-39%, are very fluid when melted and are generally regarded as having an excellent flavor.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Home-Cooking/Chocolate.shtml (4010 words)

	The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by Anthony Berkeley set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the "Crimes Circle", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve.
		Completely devoid of brutality but containing a lot of subtle, tongue-in-cheek humour instead, The Poisoned Chocolates Case is one of the classic whodunnits of the so-called Golden Age of detective fiction.
		Disapproving of such modern marketing techniques, Sir Eustace is about to throw away the chocolates in disgust but changes his mind when he learns that Graham Bendix, another member of the club whom he hardly knows, has lost a bet with his wife Joan and now owes her a box of chocolates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Poisoned_Chocolates_Case (723 words)

	Wikinfo \| Toxin
		The study of toxins and their adverse effects is known as toxicology.
		Food poisoning is a term for a broad range of illnesses that can result from eating food that is spoiled or tainted by bacterium, such as E.
		However, a molecular assembler or other new molecule may itself be a toxin, or reasonably defined as one by default under Precautionary Principle.
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	Case Closed: Tragic Valentine - TV.com
		That's because the coffee had been poisoned, but the cake was an antidote, as Conan ingeniously figured out.
		Knowing it was the mother, he disguised his voice as Rachel's father (who had appeared on the crime scene and gotten stunned by Conan's little Stun Watch Gun thingy), so he would get all the credit, and no one would suspect Conan for who he really was.
		The Girls all give chocolates to the men the like, as a way of saying that they are interested.
	www.tv.com /case-closed/tragic-valentine/episode/336009/summary.html (373 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Poisoned Chocolates Case at Epinions.com
		A box of chocolates was mailed to notorious womanizer Sir Eustace Pennefather, Baronet, at his club in London.
		Of course, after each person has presented his or her “solution,” the other five members of the Circle are welcome to try to poke holes in it, although they don’t always manage to do so immediately.
		(In most cases, the detective who was speaking turns out to have been wrong in at least some of his or her conclusions and assumptions, but still.
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		In the second “dossier novel” of this remarkable murder case, Harry Stephen Keeler once again proves that no one could handle a complicated plot as he could.
		The Poisoned Chocolates Case - a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the "Crimes Circle", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve.
		Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator, and...
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	Crippen & Landru Books: The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's ...
		This book also collects seven additional cases of Sheringham and Moresby, one of which (“The Mystery of Horne's Copse”) is a recently discovered novelette.
		When the stories are read together, certain themes — sly women, the use of poison, love gone awry — turn up too often, but the working out of the clues is good fun for fans of puzzle mysteries from the Golden Age.
		"The Poisoned Chocolates Case, as the papers called it, was perhaps the most perfectly planned murder" that the amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham had ever encountered.
	www.crippenlandru.com /books.asp?ID=83 (2038 words)

	The Golden Age of the British Detective Novel by Helene Androski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Set in the quintessential English village when the lady of the manor is poisoned during the fete to raise funds for the local cottage hospital.
		All the elements of a Golden Age classic are here: a distinguished government minister found murdered in his study, a brilliant intuitive amateur detective aiding and outwitting the police, clues scattered along the way to tempt the reader, a touch of romance, all ending with a most satisfying summation of a most improbable murder method.
		The coroner rules accidental death and the case is closed, but Priestley challenges Waghorn, as an intellectual exercise, to prove or disprove any of the possibilities: suicide, accident, or murder.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/goldenage.html (4228 words)

	MYSTERY! \| Malice Aforethought \| Author Francis Iles
		It introduced the character of "Roger Sheringham," a novelist and amateur detective.
		Berkeley/Cox often featured Sheringham in his books, including the classic The Poisoned Chocolate Case.
		Not to Be Taken (1938), aka A Puzzle in Poison
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/malice/iles.html (273 words)

	Agatha Christie
		During World War I she worked as a pharmacist, a job that also influenced her work: many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.
		Two of her novels were written at the height of her career, but held back until after her death: they were the last cases of Poirot and Miss Marple.
		The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley[?] contains characters based on Christie, Sayers, Carr, and Chesterton.
	www.fastload.org /ag/Agatha_Christie.html (554 words)

	Book Information: Poisoned Chocolates Case, the :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		In this, the best-known of Anthony Berkeley's novels, amateur detective Roger Sheringham investigates his most famous case.
		When Joan Bendix makes a bet with her husband for a box of chocolates, no one imagines that winning will cost her her life.
		The seven she eats poison her and the two her husband eats nearly kill him.
	www.iblist.com /book43683.htm (134 words)

	Holidays in Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Flag days are in some cases holidays or the birthdays and namedays for Royal family and informal holidays like Gustav Adolph Day or Nobel Day.
		One case is the April 30 which is immediately followed by May 1.
		April 30 is a de facto day because it is the Walpurgis Eve the main day for celebrations to the of the spring season.
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	Mystery
		Third, authors promise that gangs, super-criminals, trap doors, and similar contrivances will be used only with "seemly moderation." Finally, poisons unknown to science are forbidden.
		The case need not end with an arrest, but the reader must know the solution to the puzzle, and the justice, whether administered privately or publicly, must seem reasonably satisfying to the reader.
		Satisfaction here has two aspects: the amends or punishment must be sufficient, and it must be, at least substantially, brought about by the efforts of the detective(s).
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	Golden Age Mysteries - Berkeley's Best
		But if I’m rating the books I consider best (rather than personal favorites), my top three would be The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Trial and Error, and Top Storey Murder.
		I agree with almost all of Stoke Moran’s comments (though my ranking of personal favorites is different), except that I didn’t find the murderer in Silk Stocking Murders at all surprising.
		But in THE LAYTON COURT MYSTERY and THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE, I never even considered the murderer as a suspect until nearly the end of the book.
	www.jdcarr.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3102 (740 words)

	Locked-Room Murders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In many cases (especially with Clayton Rawson's Great Merlini stories and Joseph Commings tales about Senator Brooks Banner), the impossible crime situation is created by use of professional magic -- mirrors, misdirection, and the like.
		A major aspect of this sort of plot is misdirection of the sort G. Chesterton specialized in -- that is, natural assumptions based on the reader's preconeptions, and abetted by the author's narrative slant, lead one to ignore what seems obvious in retrospect.
		Anthony Berkeley's Poisoned Chocolates Case is a brilliant story with alternative solutions presented one after another by different detectives even if there is nothing impossible about the crime.
	www.mysterylist.com /lockedrm.htm (1509 words)

	Golden Age Mysteries - New series of paperbacks?
		Berkeley, The Poisoned Chocolates Case and "The Avenging Chance" in one volume.
		The Poisoned Chocolates Case and The Avenging Chance were published together in one volume in 1979 by the University of California at San Diego in their Mystery Series.
		Oh, a correction: The Poisoned Chocolates Case was not in the series I bought.
	www.jdcarr.com /forum/printthread.php?t=1648 (1388 words)

	The Greek Coffin Mystery - Q.B.I.
		It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come, with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealer and collector, died of heart failure.
		Trent's Last Case (1913) which has two solutions, and shows its detective failing to solve the mystery, with the true solution being only revealed by chance after the detective offers a false (if ingenious) explanation.
		According to JJMcC this case precedes the earlier publications and dates back to the years when Ellery was just graduated from college.
	pluto.spaceports.com /~queen/Books/greek_coffin_mystery_.html (766 words)

	Mystery of Edwin Drood
		Having scored a great success with his short story about a poisoning, entitled "The Avenging Chance," he expanded it into a novel to which he gave the name The Poisoned Chocolates Case.
		In the novel, the facts of the crime are considered by a panel of six amateur detectives.
		Each detective, on the basis of an analogy to his own favorite historic poisoning case, reaches a different conclusion.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/29-2/mystery.html (2774 words)

	Mystery Loves Company Bookstore
		Mysterious poisoning of all present at a dinner party.
		A madman is poisoning the food supply from Seattle to Miami.
		Rebecca Schwartz, the youngish SF attorney, confronts the war of the bakers.
	www.mysterylovescompany.com /gourmet.htm (505 words)

	Anthony Berkeley - Francis Iles Biography Information About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The passage of time, however, seemed to mellow Sheringham and he evolved into a more rounded and likeable character.
		The key Sheringham title is The Poisoned Chocolates Case, which also features Chitterwick, and is a classic book.
		Arguably, Berkeley's greatest novel was written as Francis Iles and was the first of three novels under that name.
	www.classiccrimefiction.com /berkeleybiog.htm (288 words)

	Index: Stories, Listed by Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A Poisoned Chalice • Jo Bannister • (ss)
		The Poisoned Chocolates Case Anthony Berkeley •; (n.)
		The Poisoned Pawn • Henry Slesar • (ss)
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	Classic Crime Novels:
		The real and final solution impresses by being "deeper" than the others, containing some very startling surprises.
		The solutions seem logical and well developed, unlike Anthony Berkeley's multiple solution novel, The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929).
		Berkeley seems most interested in writing an anti-detective story, showing how each situation can be twisted to express a multitude of interpretations, mocking the idea of detective stories in general, and the ability to understand anything through reason.
	www.topmystery.com /ElleryQueen_GreecCoffin.htm (403 words)

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