Sparkling Cyanide

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Sparkling Cyanide (published in 1945), also known as Remembered Death, is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. It features the recurring character of Colonel Race.

The novel was an expansion of a Hercule Poirot short story entitled "Yellow Iris". The story appears in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.

Plot summary

One year ago on November 2, seven people sat down to dinner. One of them, Rosemary Barton, never got up. Now, the group gather again for dinner, all suspicious, and one of them a murderer.

Film, TV and theatrical adaptations

In 1983, CBS adapted the book for television, set in the modern day, and without Colonel Race.

In late 2003 it was loosely adapted for ITV1, again in a modern setting, and involving a football manager's wife's murder. In this adaptation Colonel Race was renamed Colonel Reece, and given a partner, Dr. Catherine Kendall, somwhat similar to Christie's characters Tommy and Tuppence.

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