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    Ruskin Bond's short story "He Said it With Arsenic" is about a man named Uncle Bill who poisons wealthy friends and relatives in order to steal their property. He is shown to have a dual personality, appearing gentlemanly but also having a killer side where he uses arsenic to murder people without suspicion. In the end, Uncle Bill is forced to drink his own poisonous concoction that he had prepared for others, falling victim to his own criminal scheme. The story reveals the author's interest in crime fiction and serves as a warning to readers about psychopaths like Uncle Bill and the need to be alert around suspicious people.

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    Ruskin Bond's short story "He Said it With Arsenic" is about a man named Uncle Bill who poisons wealthy friends and relatives in order to steal their property. He is shown to have a dual personality, appearing gentlemanly but also having a killer side where he uses arsenic to murder people without suspicion. In the end, Uncle Bill is forced to drink his own poisonous concoction that he had prepared for others, falling victim to his own criminal scheme. The story reveals the author's interest in crime fiction and serves as a warning to readers about psychopaths like Uncle Bill and the need to be alert around suspicious people.

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    He Said It With Arsenic - Ruskin Bond

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    Ruskin Bond's short story "He Said it With Arsenic" is about a man named Uncle Bill who poisons wealthy friends and relatives in order to steal their property. He is shown to have a dual personality, appearing gentlemanly but also having a killer side where he uses arsenic to murder people without suspicion. In the end, Uncle Bill is forced to drink his own poisonous concoction that he had prepared for others, falling victim to his own criminal scheme. The story reveals the author's interest in crime fiction and serves as a warning to readers about psychopaths like Uncle Bill and the need to be alert around suspicious people.

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    He Said It with Arsenic

    ~Ruskin Bond

    Ruskin Bond's 'He Said it With Arsenic' portray the avaricious people, who deliberately
    ignore the nearest relations, give up self-respect and are tempted to cheat anybody for
    amassing unqualified wealth.

    The story “He Said It with Arsenic” is about Rusty and his father’s cousin, Uncle Bill who
    shares an apartment with him for some time in Dehra Dun. Uncle Bill is shown to have dual
    personality, one as a true gentleman and another as a killer, who poisons people. This
    bizarre way of murdering people that creates no suspicion is the main surprise in the story.
    The story portrays how a selfish man is capable of killing the fellow human being in order to
    seize his wealth. Uncle Bill used poison to finish rich friends and relatives so that he could
    claim their property. Even when he was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of seven years,
    he did not abandon his criminal behaviour. At last he was victimized by his scheme. He was
    forced to drink lethal concoction which he had prepared for others.

    The story is also peppered with dry and dark humour, an example of this can be found in
    the very last line of the story when Uncle Jones admitted that he mixed arsenic in only one
    glass of sherry to Rusty to kill him, Rusty still considered him a gentleman in that instance.

    The author’s interest to write a crime fiction is revealed through this story. Moreover, the
    story guides the readers that there are suspicious psychopaths like Uncle Bill and one needs
    to be alert to coexist with them.

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