Cultural References
The fictional character of Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens's Bleak House is reputed to be based on Charles Frederick Field, the policeman who investigated Walter Palmer's death for his insurers.
The salutation "What's your poison?" is thought to be a reference to the events.
The film The Life and Crimes of William Palmer was released in 1998, with Keith Allen playing the part of Palmer.
Read more about this topic: William Palmer (murderer)
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“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)