Sparkling Cyanide

Another lovely little twisty murder mystery. I thought I knew who'd “dunnit” a few times but, as usual, I was wrong! This was my first Colonel Race novel (and apparently the last) and I thoroughly enjoyed it - I shall be scouring the charity shops for more!

This is my first story with colonel race, and kinda meh for me? I'm not rating it because I was expecting hercule and i'm not familiar with Race to rate it properly.

Decent mystery.

I am making my way chronologically through Christie's mystery novels and I am unsure how I feel about this one. It was not the most exciting, nor the most surprising. On the other hand, it wasn't the most obvious either. But overall, I enjoyed reading it. All of her books are worth reading.

I know they like to categorize the books by detective, but this hardly counts as a Colonel Race novel. That is, he does play a significant part in uncovering the mystery but doesn't, in the end, solve it.

Was she capable of murder? Most people were, if you came to it. Capable not of murder in general, but of one particular individual murder.


He paused in the doorway to say, over his shoulder: “Good show.”
“That,” said Anthony as the door closed behind him, “denotes supreme British approval.”