Sparkling Cyanide
A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant! Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary -- in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that...
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A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant! Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary -- in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition -- or what they remembered about her astonishing life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007136858 (0007136854)
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Murder Mystery
Series: Colonel Race (#4)
Whilst we were dancing, the ghost of Rosemary hovers near George’s glass and drops in some cleverly materialized cyanide—any spirit can make cyanide out of ectoplasm. George comes back and drinks her health and—oh, Lord!’ The other two stared curiously at him. And so am I. I did not enjoy Sparklin...
This was my first book for the 1944 club, hosted by Kaggsy at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Simon at Stuck in a Book. 1944 was quite a year for Agatha Christie. She published Towards Zero and Sparkling Cyanide, as well as Death Comes As The End and Absent in the Spring under her romance nom de pl...
This is considered the fourth book in the Colonel Race, Agatha Christie mysteries. I of course am reading these books out of order. I already read "Cards on the Table" (5 stars) and "Death on the Nile (ditto 5 stars) so apparently my streak continues with Race and I gave "Sparkling Cyanide" 5 stars ...
Sparkling Cyanide is not one of my favorite Christies. I haven´t been particularly intrigued by the crime or the suspects and the first part of the book, a chapter for each of the suspects and an explanation for their possible motives to kill off Rosemary Barton, didn´t work for me. And Anthony Br...
Many years ago I spent many a pleasant hour reading my way through Agatha Christie’s work. I of course fell for her famous Belgian detective and her wily old lady who pitted their wits against a variety of corking criminals. Granted some of my memories of those stories have now merged with the TV ad...
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