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Sparkling Cyanide

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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A brand new CD audio editon of Agatha Christie’s classic thriller.

Features the recurring character Colonel Race from Death on the Nile, Cards on the Table and The Man in the Brown Suit.

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.

 Classics Cosy Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Fiction Crime
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Critic reviews

“The denoument will probably come as a surprise to nine readers out of ten”
New York Times

“SPARKLING CYANIDE is the one … which I should take with me to a desert island; for I find in it a seriousness and a psychological insight unparalleled in the author’s other works.’ Times Literary Supplement
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there's a short story called YELLOW IRIS that has the same setup but different outcome.
they both have a woman dying by cyanide at a night club as the start but change directions after that.
it can feel confusing if you remember the wrong one. (Poirot is in the other one.)

not to be confused with another story

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Great story, very nice interpretation, perfect combination. Hugh Fraser is great pick although there is no Poirot or Ms. Marple.

My favorite Author

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I really enjoyed listening to this story. it was an excellent listen and story without Poirot or Marple, but still lots of twists and turns.

Excellent Story

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Elaborate rushed denouement raising a question of how a key relationship, hardly explained by the author, ever took place in the context of the life of other characters.

Rushed Denouement

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Loved it all. I never worked out who did it and loved the voice of the reader

Gripped me to the end

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