Cyanide with Christie

By Katherine Bolger Hyde

A game of charades ends in coldblooded murder in this entertaining cozy mystery, third in the Crime with the Classics series.



Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grand Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers’ retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receive her first set of guests. But her careful planning is thrown into disarray by the unexpected arrival of outrageous true-crime writer, Cruella Crime, whose unpardonably rude behaviour is causing great offence.



As a ferocious ice storm rages outside, the guests entertain one another with a game of charades. But their revelries are brought to a sudden halt by the discovery of a body in one of the guest bedrooms. When it transpires the victim was poisoned, Emily decides to take a leaf out of the book of her favourite detective writer, Agatha Christie, and investigate. But as she pursues her enquiries, it becomes chillingly clear that she herself may have been the intended victim...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers
• Release date: Mar 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781448301782

Katherine Bolger Hyde

Katherine Bolger Hyde is the author of the Crime with the Classics Mysteries. She has lived her life surrounded by books, from teaching herself to read at the age of four to majoring in Russian literature to making her career as an editor. She lives in California with her husband.

Reviews for Cyanide with Christie

[aztwinmom · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Over the Christmas holiday season, Emily is holding a writers’ retreat for a small group at the Victorian mansion she inherited from her aunt. Her friend from Reed College has invited the group, but when one cancels, an obnoxious young man shows up to take his place. Emily also rents a house to a woman who seems to dislike Emily from the start. Cruella Crime, a writer of true crime stories, turns out to be as horrible as her name suggests. When one guest dies during a game of charades, everyone becomes a suspect. But who was the actual intended victim? And why?This is a lovely cozy series, filled with characters who love books. I read and enjoyed the first in this series (Arsenic with Austen) and am happy to say that this third book continues to be a very enjoyable read. Now I have added the second in the series to my TBR pile!

[vesper1931 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Finally the renovations have been completed on the Victorian mansion that is Windy Corner. Now literature professor Emily Cavanaugh can organise her first writers' retreat over the Christmas and New Year period.
But death is never far away, but who will be the victim and who the guilty party among all the suspects.
An enjoyable enough cozy mystery though I could not take to the main character. Also some of the guests' characters seemed to be a bit over the top, and therefore obvious.
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