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Other seemingly innocent lickable objects, such as stamps or envelopes, are also popular.
Most often a [[:Category:Mystery
Related to, but separate from, [[Poisoned Weapons]]. The murderer may use a [[Perfect Poison]] to do the job. Not to be confused with a [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]], though less-subtle examples may rely on the victim trying one.
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=== Literature ===
* ''[[
* [[Older Than Print]]: ''[[Arabian Nights
* In the [[
* This technique is mentioned in ''[[Bridge of Birds]]'', with the added element that the books in question were pornographic.
* Classic example: in Alexandre Dumas' ''[[
=== Live
* ''[[Eleventh Hour|11th Hour]]'' used this one early in its first (only?) season.
* In the ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode"Page Turner", the killer coats the pages of a book in thallium to poison his victims.
=== Western Animation ===
* In the old TV show, ''[[Jacob Two Two]]'', a bad guy puts into motion a plot to kill people via this method. {{spoiler|He fails}}
=== Anime and Manga ===▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Case Closed]]'', a man was murdered via {{spoiler|poison applied to the temperature control of a cooking range on which a pot of water was boiling, after which he counted money and licked the poison from his fingers}}.
** One of the movies had a woman murdered in a similar way. {{spoiler|her make-up artist put the poison in her make-up, and then gave her normal chocolates on an airplane trip. The woman pinched her nose to pop her ears, getting the poison on her fingers, and then ate a chocolate and licked her fingers, ingesting the poison.}}
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** A man who disliked sour things was nevertheless poisoned by a lemon wedge in his drink because, as part of a marketing gimmick, he had eaten a miraculin berry and was unable to taste the sourness.
=== Comic Books ===
* One ''[[Batman]]'' comic featured the Joker's venom being applied to postage stamps. {{spoiler|The twist being that the Joker didn't do it.}}
* In the classic "The Judas Contract" storyline in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'', Deathstroke captures Gar 'Changeling' Logan by drugging the gum in the envelopes Gar is using to respond to his fan mail.
=== Film ===
* Not exactly lickable, but in the movie ''[[The Mechanic]]'', Arthur Bishop {{spoiler|is killed when Steve coats the inside of his wine glass with poison}}.
* Another not exactly lickable example occurs in [[Sherlock Holmes (
=== Literature ===
* In ''[[Discworld]]'' [[Defictionalization|stamp-collecting]], the original Assassins' Guild 3p stamp (the Thrupenny Dreadful), is very rare, at least gummed. The in-universe reason for this is that they were recalled due to unsubstantiated rumours that the Guild was using it to fulfill contracts.
* In ''[[Robin Hobb]]'''s Assassin's Apprentice, one of Fitz-Chivalry's assassination ploys was to {{spoiler|poison the cutlery instead of the food.}}
* During the [[Belgariad|Mallorean]] series, Sadi kills a man by coating the man's soup spoon with poison.
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* Non-poison example: In ''Red Seas Under Red Skies'', Locke and Jean win a card game by sprinkling a sleep-inducing drug on the cards. One of their opponents is notorious for eating and licking her fingers while she plays, and she forfeits the game when the drug puts her to sleep.
=== Live
* There was a ''[[
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* In the ''[[
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* In one episode of ''[[Benson]]'', a person with a habit of sucking on the earpiece of his reading glasses was killed by poison placed on the earpiece.
=== Tabletop Games ===
* In the ''[[Dungeons
=== Video Games ===
* A poisoned letter stamp in ''[[Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]].'' Also upgraded to poisoned nail polish, because the intended victim,
* ''A Game at Dinner'', an in-game short story in some ''[[Elder Scrolls]]'' games, has [[Magnificent Bastard|Helseth]] implying to his assembled dinner guests that he put poison on the cutlery of someone he knows has been spying on him. {{spoiler|It turns out to be a subversion, however, as Helseth was [[Bluffing the Murderer|Bluffing The Spy]], and the real poison is the antidote he offers to the spy if they confess.}}
* Finger-licking isn't explicitly mentioned, but in ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', Agostino Barbarigo dies after receiving several poisoned letters from the Assassins.
=== Real Life ===
* Real-life example: While not highly toxic by itself, Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) has the property of being quickly and easily absorbed through skin contact, allowing easy contact absorption of whatever else happens to be mixed with it. This allows a deadly but hard
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