First Published
- UK
- Collins, London, Dec. 1945
- Daily Express, Jul.9-28 1945
- US
- Dodd Mead, New York, Feb. 1945 as "Remembered Death"
- The Saturday Evening Post, Jul.15-Sep.2 1944
Plot
(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)
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.
Contents
- BOOK 1: Rosemary
- 1. Iris Marle
- 2. Ruth Lessing
- 3. Anthony Browne
- 4. Stephen Farraday
- 5. Alexandra Farraday
- 6. George Barton
- BOOK 2: All Saints' Day
- BOOK 3: Iris
Characters
George Barton, Rosemary Barton, Patricia Brce-Woodworth, Anthony Browne, Charles, Lucilla Drake, Victor Drake, Lady Alexandra Catherine Farraday, Stephen Farraday, Chief Inspector Kemp, Lady Victoria Kidderminster, Lord William, the Earl of Kidderminster, Ruth Lessing, Iris Marle, Colonel Johnny Races, Chloe Elizabeth West, General Lord Woodworth
Movie & TV
- Sparkling Cyanide, 1983 (USA/TV)
- director Robert M. Lewis
- writer Sue Grafton, Steve Humphrey, Robert M. Young
- cast Anthony Andrews(Tony Browne), Deborah Raffin(Iris Marle), Josef Sommer(George Barton), Christine Belford(Rosemary Barton), Pamela Bellwood(Ruth Lessing), Nancy Marchand(Lucilla Drake), Michael Woods(Victor Drake), David Huffman(Stephen Farraday), Anne Rogers(Sandra Farraday)
- Sparkling Cyanide, 2003 (UK/TV)
- director Tristram Powell
- writer Laura Lamson
- cast Kenneth Cranham(George Barton), Rachel Shelley(Rosemary Barton), Lia Williams(Ruth Lessing), Justin Pierre(Carl 'Fizz' Fitzgerald), Richard Clifford(Maitre D'), Susan Hampshire(Lucilla Drake), Chloe Howman(Iris Marle), Clare Holman(Alexandra Farraday), James Wilby(Stephen Farraday), Joseph Scatley(Sam Knight), Pauline Collins(Dr. Catherine Kendall), Oliver Ford Davies(Col. Geoffrey Reece), Ruth Platt(Rebecca Knight), Jack Fortune(Phillip McCain), Jonathan Firth(Mark Drake)
Link
- Official Site: Sparkling Cyanide
- Wikipedia: Sparkling Cyanide
- IMDb: Sparkling Cyanide (1983)
- IMDb: Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
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