For the next book, still in its infancy, perhaps its toddlerhood, I'm planning to have the students dropping over with apparent heart attacks. These are, of course, chemically induced and used to dispose of inconvenient witnesses to an ongoing crime spree. They won't be killed with Meth or anything mundane like that. (Though I am planning on having a drug lab in chemistry busted somewhere early in the book. They'll be producing MCPP or something like that, but with maybe a touch of MPTP.)
The problem is that I need a little known poison that will mimic a heart attack. It turns out there are a whole bunch of channel blockers, especially Saxitoxin, that would do the trick. It's just a matter of finding a time-release way to administer them. I suspect there will have to be another chemist involved, perhaps one whose work on micro-encapsulating drugs makes the front page of the Signal.
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