Hercule Poirot #7.5
Black Coffee
Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time...
An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion's occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip 'twix his low lips.
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1,1998
This edition
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304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
- Published
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September 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Paperbacks
- ISBN
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9780312970079
- ASIN
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0312970072
- Language
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English
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Detective Chief Inspector James Japp
Detective Chief Inspector James Japp (later Assistant Commissioner Japp) is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christies novels featuring Hercule Poirot.Japps career in the Poirot novels extends into the 1930s but, like Has...
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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...
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Sir Claud Amory
A rich and reclusive scientist. Lives in an upscale house, Abbots Cleve, about 25 miles from London.more...
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Richard Amory
Sir Clauds only son. He is married to Lucia. He had to quit the army and now lives with his father. Short of money.more...
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Lucia Amory
Richard Amorys wife. Lucia is Italian. She and Richard met a year ago in Italy, fell in love and got married. Young and attractive. Has a maid, Vittoria.more...
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Caroline Amory
Sir Clauds spinster sister. Usually addressed as Miss Amory. Caroline is a prudish woman who symbolizes Victorian ideals. She appears under her brothers thumb, but is practically the matriarch of the household.more...
