In We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the poisoning is committed using arsenic (this is common knowledge in the narrative of the book, and is not a spoiler past the first few chapters, at the least). Arsenic, as a heavy metal poisoning, tends to take a longer period of poisoning as it has to bui...

Looking for a book that I read in school (mid 1990's, USA), so likely published in the 1980s or early 1990s. It was about a father and son treasure hunting team mainly looking for shipwrecks. The lived in the American South, most likely Florida. The story starts with family doing well having rece...

It was a book I read somewhen 2010 to 2020 from one of the numerous Soviet publications of adventure novels and stories collections or an imitation thereof (borrowed from one of my then-friends' home library, I believe; it is not--or at least was not--uncommon to find books like that around the n...