![]() ![]() We hardly get to see Rosemary except for a few memories, but we do meet some of her relatives who might’ve had an interest in her death. By giving us a chapter or two on each character, we learned the backstory and decided which ones we liked and disliked. We hear from each of the major characters, then a second dinner scene is reenacted to catch the killer, only someone else dies again. Which of the two men at their dinner table that night had killed her? Or was it her sister? His secretary? One of the men’s wives? Someone else? The book is divided into 3 parts. ![]() Then he gets notes and realizes she had been having an affair. The premise: Rosemary committed suicide a year ago, or did she? Her husband begins to wonder if she might’ve been killed. ![]() Overall, it’s a good story, but it lacked something for me to really recommend it as a clever mystery. Race is a bit bland by their standards, and he doesn’t figure in until the latter portion of the book. ![]() Published in 1944, it is one of the stories more represented in tv shows or movies, but the sleuth isn’t either of the popular Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot characters. Sparkling Cyanide is the 4th book in the Colonel Race series by Agatha Christie. ![]()
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