Cocktail of the Week: Sparkling Cyanide

A tip of the glass to Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie, the best-selling author of all time and the “queen of crime,” was fatally drawn to poison as a way of knocking off her “murder victims.” In the 1945 novel Sparkling Cyanide, not one but two people die from drinking poisoned champagne while sitting at the same table in the same fancy restaurant — approximately one year apart.

With Ha…