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Sparkling Cyanide – Agatha Christie

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Ela

(HarperCollins 2006: in ‘1940s Omnibus’, originally published 1945) Like Towards Zero, Sparkling Cyanide is one of Christie’s ‘stand-alone’ detective novels published during the war years but which does not refer to the war and seems to be set before it. … Continue reading →

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Towards Zero – Agatha Christie

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Ela

(HarperCollins 2006, in ‘1940s Omnibus’; originally published 1944) Though this book was published during the Second World War, the war is never mentioned in the book, nor rationing nor any kind of shortages, and thus was probably either written before … Continue reading →

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