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Sparkling Cyanide

At a round table in the Luxembourg nightclub 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. But which of those present has the murder of Rosemary Barton on their conscience?
Year: 1945
Location: Europe

Cast of characters

Colonel Johnny Race. Also: Betty Archdale, Giuseppe Balsano, George and Rosemary Barton, Patricia Brice-Woodworth, Anthony Browne, Charles, Lucilla and Victor Drake, Lady Alexandra and Stephen Farraday, Chief Inspector Kemp, Lord William, Earl of Kidderminster and Lady Victoria (Vicky), Ruth Lessing, Iris Marle, Mary Rees-Talbot, Chloe Elizabeth West

Publishing history

Publishing: First published in 1945 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and as 'Remembered Death' by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. TV: The novel was adapted in 1983 by CBS Television in the U.S. Adapted FOR UK television and aired on Granada in 2003.

Notes and reviews

A reconstruction of a fateful dinner party also features in the short story 'Yellow Iris'

Murder methods:

Two Poisonings.

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