He probably just had a case of the Mondays.

June 7, 2009 3:16 AM

Namethatbookfilter: Post-war Britain about a disaffected male office worker who thinks about (possibly acts on) poisoning the water cooler at his office. Ring any bells?

I'm asking on behalf of my friend, who mentioned having heard about it on one of the Radio 4 book programmes. I bragged to him of the Hive Mind's boundless capacity, so please don't let me down.

posted by Edwahd to media & arts (7 comments total)

I don't know about a book, but there is a film on a similar subject: The Young Poisoners Handbook, about Graham Young.
posted by hot soup girl at 3:23 AM on June 7

Sounds remarkably like The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, (1970s) although I don't remember and poisoning going on...
posted by Petrot at 5:22 AM on June 7

any poisoning...
posted by Petrot at 5:23 AM on June 7

How about Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry?
posted by alygator at 6:07 AM on June 7

This might indeed be Graham Young, but he was known as the Teacup Poisoner from his habit of making poisoned tea for carefully selected colleagues. He never poisoned the water supply for the entire office.
posted by timeo danaos at 7:14 AM on June 7

Thank you kindly, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry strikes the right chord.
posted by Edwahd at 8:35 AM on June 7

There's also a film of the book starring Nick Moran of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels fame. The soundtrack is by Luke Haines (ex-the Auteurs).
posted by vickyverky at 3:41 PM on June 7