CARBON MONOXIDE 224: a dusty little store that never seemed to open . . . : This description is based on a photo published in the New York Daily News in 1933 and reprinted in Simon Read, On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy (New York: Berkley Books, 2005). Read’s book provided background for the Malloy story, along with “The Indestructible Man,” in Richard Glyn Jones, ed., Poison! (New York: Berkley Books, 1987), pp. 58–71; Marshall Houts, Where Death Delights (New York: Coward-McCann, 1967), pp. 125–38.225: On February 20, Congress voted to repeal . . . : See David J. Hanson, “Repeal of Prohibition in the U.S.,” www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/controversies/1131637220.html; and Marvin Hintz, Farewell, John Barleycorn: Prohibition in the United States (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1996).230 “Case 2: Male, age 38, found dead . . . ”: A. O. Gettler and H. C. Freimuth, “Carbon Monoxide in Blood,” American Journal of Clinical Pathology 13, no. 79 (1943), pp.
