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* [[Raymond Chandler]]:
** ''Nevada Gas''.
** ''[[The Big Sleep (Literature)|The Big Sleep]]'', wherein a side character is poisoned with cyanide in whisky and dies in the span of a single page. Notably, Marlowe calls the cyanide not because of the
* ''Bitter Almonds'' is the title of a ''[[Montague Egg]]'' mystery.
* The non-fiction book ''[[Murder Ink]]'' (the paperback version) by Dilys Winn included its own murder mystery with various clues among the pages. The deceased is dead of cyanide poisoning via his afternoon tea. The inside cover has a scratch & sniff tea
* In a variant, vampire Jack Fleming of is injected with cyanide in ''[[The Vampire Files|A Chill In The Blood]]'', and Doc identifies the poison by smelling the needle. He doesn't specify what it smelled like, but Jack's undead metabolism lets him sweat blood until it's all out of his system, and the ''blood-sweat'' is described as smelling like almonds mixed with rust and raw meat (ick).
* Used twice in the danish book ''Gargoylens Gåde'' ('Riddle of the Gargoyle'). A group of [[Amateur Sleuth
* In ''[[The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls]]'', Madame Mournigton {{spoiler|realizes that Dr. Stockill killed her daughter, Violet,}} after recognizing the scent of almond (the only thing she is cabable of smelling) on recently-killed {{spoiler|Christelle}}'s breath.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Iced", Doc Robbins explains that not everyone can smell cyanide and points out that skin discoloration is a more obvious symptom. To illustrate that point, [[Chew Toy|Hodges]] (who has this ability) walks in and performs the "test" with a deliberately silly ceremony. This may be the first acknowledgment of this fact in television. Greg apparently also has the ability, and uses it in a later ep.
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the Doctor is poisoned and [[Agatha Christie]] identifies the poison as cyanide this way (and [[Title Drop
* Parodied in ''[[The Goodies]]'' episode "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express" where one of the characters detects the distinctive tang of bitter almonds, leading him to declare that "This arsenic has been poisoned!"
* In an episode of ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'', as part of a counterintelligence scam, Ilya fakes his suicide by drinking "cyanide", leaving behind the scent of bitter almonds on his "corpse".
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Used as the punchline of [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03172010.shtml this] ''[[Something Positive]]'' strip.
* [[The Rant]] in [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0463.html this strip] of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' talks about how [[Dungeon Master
{{quote|"You sniff the golden liquid in a proffered cup, and think you can recognise a faint odour of almonds..." }}
* ''[[Chopping Block]]'' screwed this up, making the standard "almonds" reference with no mention of bitterness.
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* The news coverage of [[wikipedia:Chicago Tylenol murders|The Chicago Tylenol Murders]] warned viewers not to take Tylenol pills if they smelled like almonds.
* Infamous Mafia hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski killed several people by giving them hamburgers with mustard that he had mixed with cyanide; he noted that "even if he tastes it, he's already dead from it."
* In April
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