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Sparkling Cyanide
by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie has done it again - this book was brilliant, as ALWAYS! She keeps you on the edge of your seat, guessing and thinking and rethinking during the entire book. I suspected nearly every character at one point or another in this book, but not once have I been able to correctly guess the ending and the murderer of an Agatha Christie book. (And I have read a lot of her books.)
The book is about a young woman named Rosemary Barton, who was murdered at her birthday dinner before six friends - her younger sister, her husband, her husband's secretary, a friend, and a husband and wife. The death was assumed to be suicide, but when the woman's husband receives two anonymous messages he begins to suspect it was murder. Part I of the book highlights the thoughts of these six friends, these six characters, revealing their natures and clues that begin to piece themselves together. 'Rosemary' means remembrance, so the first six chapters told from the point of view of each character are memories the characters have of Rosemary.
Then another astonishing event brings these six people together, and two detectives set out to uncover the truth of the matter, though Rosemary's death was over a year ago and it will be hard to prove that her death was not suicide after all.
What happened COULD NOT have happened; but it did. How, why...and WHO?
This book was genius. I love reading Christie's ingenious plots; which you think might be somewhat similar but by the end of the books are totally and completely different.
READ THIS BOOK.
The book is about a young woman named Rosemary Barton, who was murdered at her birthday dinner before six friends - her younger sister, her husband, her husband's secretary, a friend, and a husband and wife. The death was assumed to be suicide, but when the woman's husband receives two anonymous messages he begins to suspect it was murder. Part I of the book highlights the thoughts of these six friends, these six characters, revealing their natures and clues that begin to piece themselves together. 'Rosemary' means remembrance, so the first six chapters told from the point of view of each character are memories the characters have of Rosemary.
Then another astonishing event brings these six people together, and two detectives set out to uncover the truth of the matter, though Rosemary's death was over a year ago and it will be hard to prove that her death was not suicide after all.
What happened COULD NOT have happened; but it did. How, why...and WHO?
This book was genius. I love reading Christie's ingenious plots; which you think might be somewhat similar but by the end of the books are totally and completely different.
READ THIS BOOK.