Sparkling Cyanide
Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image. | |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead and Company |
Publication date | February 1945 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 209 (first edition, hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Death Comes as the End |
| Followed by | The Hollow |
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 Remembered Death and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in December the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6).
The novel features the last appearance of the recurring character Colonel Race, to solve the mysterious deaths of a married couple, exactly one year apart. The plot of this novel expands the plot of a short story, "Yellow Iris".