Editing Marsh test (section)

==In fiction==
Marsh test is used in ''[[Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously]]'' to prove that a certain chocolate is poisoned with arsenic.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lingren |first=Astrid |title=Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously |publisher=Rabén & Sjögren |year=1951 |isbn= }}</ref>

[[Lord Peter Wimsey]]’s manservant [[Mervyn Bunter|Bunter]] uses Marsh’s test in ''[[Strong Poison]]'' to demonstrate that the culprit was secretly in possession of arsenic.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sayers |first=Dorothy L. |title=Strong Poison |publisher=Gollancz |year=1930}}</ref>

In [[Alan Bradley (writer)|Alan Bradley]]'s ''As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust'', 12-year old sleuth and chemistry genius Flavia de Luce uses the Marsh test to determine that arsenic was the murderer's weapon.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bradley |first=Alan |title=As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust |date=2016 |publisher=Bantam |isbn=978-0-345-53994-6 |edition= |series=Flavia de Luce |location=New York}}</ref>

In the first episode of the 2017 BBC television series ''[[Taboo (2017 TV series)|Taboo]]'' a mirror test, referencing the Marsh test, is used to verify the protagonist's father was killed via arsenic poisoning. As the setting of the series is between 1814-1820, however, the test's appearance is anachronistic.<ref>{{Citation|title=Taboo (TV Series 2017– )|date=10 January 2017|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647998/?ref_=ttgf_gf_tt|access-date=2017-06-17|archive-date=2022-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125085557/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647998/?ref_=ttgf_gf_tt|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the episode "The King Came Calling" of the first season of ''[[Ripper Street]]'', police surgeon Homer Jackson ([[Matthew Rothenberg]]) performs Marsh's test on the contents of a poisoning victim and determines that the fatal poison was [[antimony]], not arsenic, since the chemical residue deposited by the flames does not dissolve in sodium hypochlorite.<ref>"The King Came Calling" [[Ripper Street|Ripper Street (TV Series 2012-2016)]], 30 December 2012</ref>

In episode of the 1957 television series [[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|''Perry Mason'']], "[https://www.perrymasontvseries.com/wiki/index.php/EpisodePages/Show31 The Case of the Fiery Fingers]" (s01 ep31), a doctor testifying on the stand regarding the victim of a fatal poisoning is asked if he performed a Marsh test to determine that the poison used was arsenic. The doctor confirms that the Marsh test was used and allowed him to identify the poison as arsenic.