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Plot summary. One year earlier, seven people sat down to dinner at the Luxembourg restaurant. One, Rosemary Barton, never got up; instead she collapsed and died. The coroner ruled her death suicide by poisoning, due to post-flu depression. However, each of the guests had reason to want her dead:
Brief Synopsis. The novel is set in the luxurious restaurant, Luxembourg, where a year ago, a young and beautiful socialite, Rosemary Barton, died under mysterious circumstances. Her death was initially deemed a suicide due to cyanide poisoning, but her husband, George Barton, suspects foul play.
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.
Sparkling Cyanide brings to a close the Colonel Race series with a twisty whodunnit told from multiple POVs. Each person tells their version of the events that led up to the evening of a deadly birthday party, and while all of them have a motive, only one of them is the actual killer.
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Rosemary is for remembrance... Eleven months have passed since the death of the young and beautiful Rosemary Barton, and her memory is still on her family and friends' mind. Suddenly, a series of anonymous letters make clear that her death was not due to post-flu depresson, as the enquiry declared, but of murder. But who could have wanted Rosemary'...
Seating plan at the Luxembourg restaurant
1. Rosemary Barton- occupied the vacant place at the previous dinner the year before
Others at the Luxembourg restaurant
1. Pedro Morales and his girlfriend, Christine Shannonat adjacent table 2. Gerald Tollington and Patricia Brice-Woodworth, couple at another adjacent table 3. Charles- headwaiter 4. Giuseppe Bolsano- waiter at Barton's table 5. Pierre- junior waiter 6. Mr Goldstein 7. Robert
Other important characters
1. Chief Inspector Kemp 2. Colonel Race 3. Lucilla Drake and her son Victor Drake 4. Others from the Marle family 5. “Uncle” Paul Bennett 6. Chloe Elizabeth West
The book was not reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement. Maurice Richardson, in the 13 January 1946 issue of The Observer wrote, "Agatha Christie readers are divided into two groups: first, fans like me who will put up with any amount of bamboozling for the sake of the pricking suspense, the close finish, six abreast, of the suspect race, and th...
At one point Lucilla Drake mentions Dr Gaskell when talking to Iris Marle, and later changes subject halfway and remembers the grocer. Iris notes that Lucilla has a peculiar way of thinking, and remarks that if she had asked why Dr Gaskell reminded her of the grocer, Lucilla would have said “because the grocer's name is Cranford”. This is a referen...
1983 film
In 1983, Warner Bros adapted the book for as a feature length television film, directed by Robert Michael Lewis. The film is set in 1980s California and starred Anthony Andrews as the central character, Tony Browne. This adaptation did not feature Colonel Race.
2003 adaptation
In late 2003, it was loosely adapted by Laura Lamson for ITV1, again in a modern setting, and involving a football manager's wife's murder. In this adaptation Colonel Race was renamed Colonel Geoffrey Reece, and given a partner, his wife, Dr. Catherine Kendall. The byplay between Reece (played by Oliver Ford Davies) and Kendall (played by Pauline Collins) was somewhat similar to Christie's characters Tommy and Tuppence.
Radio adaptation
In 2012, a three-part adaptation by Joy Wilkinson was broadcast on BBC Radio 4directed by Mary Peate with Naomi Frederick as Iris, Peter Wright as George, Amanda Drew as Ruth, Colin Tierney as Anthony, James Lailey as Stephen, Sean Baker as Colonel Race and Jasmine Hyde as Rosemary.
1944: The Saturday Evening Post, serialised in 8 parts, 15 Jul - 2 Sep 1944 as "Remembered Death".1944: Daily Express, abridged, serialised in 18 parts, 9 Jul-28 Jul 1944.Czech: Cyankáli v šampaňském(Cyanide in Champagne)German: Blausäure(Cyanhydric Acid)French: Meurtre au Champagne(Murder by Champagne)Italian: Giorno dei morti("Day of the Dead", reference to the day George Barton died)In Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie, we are introduced to the wealthy and beautiful Rosemary Barton, who dies under mysterious circumstances. Her death is initially ruled as a suicide, but her husband, George Barton, is not convinced.
Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death [1] and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the December of the same year under Christie's original title. [2]
