![]() He suspects Stephen Farraday, a rising young politician, or Stephen’s wife Alexandra, both of whom were at the dinner party at which Rosemary died, or Rosemary’s friend Anthony Browne, who is now paying attentions to Iris. Although the inquest brought in a verdict of suicide, George Barton, Rosemary’s husband, has had his own theories about her death, feeling sure that his wife’s lover or someone else at the party had something to do with it. ![]() Colonel Race, who features as a minor character in several of Christie’s other novels, such as Death on the Nile and Cards on the Table, appears in this, though in this he takes a more leading role in the investigation along with an Inspector Kemp.Īs the book begins, Iris Marle is remembering her sister Rosemary Barton, who died by cyanide poisoning a year previously, and since this traumatic event, no-one who knew Rosemary has been entirely unchanged. Like Towards Zero, Sparkling Cyanide is one of Christie’s ‘stand-alone’ detective novels published during the war years but which does not refer to the war and seems to be set before it. ![]() ![]() (HarperCollins 2006: in ‘1940s Omnibus’, originally published 1945) ![]()
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