Important research for a story I'm writing! Not real life, never real life.
You are transported back in time and into the body of a young noblewoman in the 1400s. Your parents have married you off to an awful, abusive, rapist husband whom literally no one else would marry despite him being very high nobility because he's that terrible. You successfully produce a baby boy and then plan to murder this man for the good of everyone and yourself. Here is the question: do you think you could murder him in a way that is undetectable to the historical people around you? Note: they aren't stupid, you are the prime suspect as the battered wife AND you can't just say poison. Where are you going to buy poison? Do you know anything about poison actually? NO GOOGLING! You were sent back without a plan!
Do you think you could murder someone in the 1400s and get away with it with your modern know-how?
Yes, I totally have a plan (tell me for research purposes)
No, I realize that I'm very uninformed about murder
I have some ideas but I'm not sure they would work
Edit: my notes are full of murder. I love you all
Edit: to clarify about the poison, you can use poison if you actually know how to identify it, I'm saying you can't just go "Poison!" with no knowledge about poison. Buying it probably means they know that poison and you're caught. Your personal knowledge when you read this post is all you have.
Another point of clarity: You went through all that trouble to have a baby without modern medicine so you could get the sweet house after your husband died. That's why you can't be caught. No disappearing.
More information: this is a fan fiction based on a Chinese novel/drama called The Sword and the Brocade/The Concubine-born Daughter's Stratagies, and concerns a minor character, the female lead's older sister. After marrying the awful husband, she has a bad time for about half a year, miscarries because of him and then he's murdered.
The fic is about someone coming in from the future knowing the story and trying to successfully have a baby in order to stay in control of the household as the wife raising the heir. Very unfortunately, she changes enough that he doesn't end up getting murdered and then she has to try to off him herself. She wants to keep her position and not get caught.
I don't know if I'll post this story, it's very dark. It would require so many warning tags. I just got to the murder part and realized that I, a modern person, had no idea how to knock this guy off without getting caught, even with all my future knowledge! The main character is an actor/dancer, so she's not up on poison unless it's a hobby of hers (I cannot personally identify hemlock or foxglove). I didn't specify a country, just a year, because I was having trouble coming up with anything at all, much less something area specific.
Anyway, this has confirmed my two ideas, which were cause an alcohol-related accident or cause sepsis by infecting a wound. But I'm enjoying reading all the ideas.
Edit: air embolisms are going on a high shelf until you show me you can build a syring all by yourself 350 years before they were invented and can somehow hide the traces of your blacksmithing or wtv
