u/Junior-Fox-760

So I'm not sure if I'm just too cynical and modern but I'm rereading Sparkling Cyanide now.

In the first chapter she just keeps hitting SO HARD that Rosemary was run down and depressed after a bout of influenza. And I know some of it is to explain why the characters all accepted that Rosemary committed suicide, with varying degrees of belief. But it just seems so thin. And Christie keeps emphasizing, over and over, that Rosemary was still run down even after this supposed bout of "flu" had run its course.

Does anyone else think Christie could have actually been hinting that Rosemary was pregnant with Stephen's child, and her "influenza" was morning sickness and her "depression" was because she knew Stephen was tired of her?

Several quotes from people on this board in this article featured on msn.com:

4 Agatha Christie novels that have never been adapted for the screen

So when my parents got beyond being able to live in a house by themselves, we found them an apartment in a senior community where we could stop by often to help them. Those types of communities always have lots of services on site like church, dining, laundry, etc, and of course, salons where the residents can get their hair done. My mom absolutely refused to even try to the onsite salon, said they would make her hair blue like an old lady (cue me and my sister eyerolling to each other, "Mom, you are an old lady.") But anyway, my sister said she'd take Mom with her to her salon and they would make a nice day out of it and have lunch, etc. Of course, my sister's salon is fancy and expensive.

So my dad couldn't care less about this kind of thing and was happy to go upstairs for his haircut. When he found out how much cheaper the senior place was he wanted Mom to go there. My sister being flippant told my dad, "Dad, mom's too bougie for this place." He seemed to just drop it and we didn't think anything more of it.

Well the next time he had a haircut at the senior place, the stylist asked him why his wife never came to her and he looked right at her and said, "My daughter says she's too bougie for this place." Then he pauses, and says, "What does bougie mean?"

Oy!