In Literature
- Raymond Chandler uses "a little potassium hydrocyanide" against private detective Philip Marlowe in The Little Sister – "merely relaxing".
- In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the first death occurs from cyanide poisoning.
- In Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide (also entitled Remembered Death), based upon her Hercule Poirot short story entitled "Yellow Iris", Rosemary and George Barton are poisoned by cyanide crystals.
- In Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors by "Rex Feral", the use of cyanide to poison a mark is explained in detail.
- In the Joseph Kesselring play Arsenic and Old Lace, two old ladies mix wine with arsenic, cyanide and strychnine to use to kill old men.
- Bishop Lilliman was killed by 'V', forcing the bishop to swallow a communion wafer poisoned with cyanide in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's comic book series, V for Vendetta.
- Yuka Nakagawa falls victim to accidental cyanide poisoning in Koushun Takami's Battle Royale'
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