Doug Moe: UW journalism prof’s book on forensics gets positive reaction

Deborah Blum, who has won a Pulitzer Prize and currently teaches investigative reporting and creative non-fiction at UW-Madison, is awaiting the imminent publication of a new book. â??The Poisonerâ??s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York,â? due next month, is being heralded as the work of a gifted writer who knows her science.