Anthony Browne

In the novel Sparkling Cyanide, Anthony ‘Tony’ Browne is one of the guests of George Barton’s dinner party, where Rosemary Barton (George’s wife) died of cyanide poisoning. Tony has dark hair and tanned skin because of his Italian (or Spanish) ancestors. Tony claimed he had Spanish relatives but it is likely that this was a lie. Indeed, a parlourmaid had heard Anthony threatening Rosemary because she knew Anthony’s real name, Tony Morelli. It is later revealed that Browne was warning her against dangerous individuals, and that Tony Morelli was the name he used in prison to go undercover. Indeed, Tony avoided Colonel Johnnie Race because he said that intelligence agents recognize each other easily, and didn’t want his cover to be ruined. At the end of the novel, Anthony Browne couples with Rosemary’s sister Iris Marle. In fact, the two had already gotten along previously and recalled George Barton’s attention.