A murder mysyery for the holidays! In the summer of 1922, New York was in the grip of pie phobia. At the Shelburne Restaurant, six people died after eating arsenic-laced pie.
Many more people were taken ill. At first, the authorities thought that this was accidental; that the poison had fond its way into the food from lax exterminators. But this wasn't the case.
The police, and even the restaurant manager, believed that the poisonings had been deliberate. Speculation was rife; had a rival establishment poisoned the food? Again, the restaurant management denied this.
As a result, sales of restaurant pies in the entire New York area decreased dramatically.
Despite extensive Googling, I can find no outcome to this story. Was this a deliberate poisoning? By who? Let me know if you find out!
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