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1. Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
2. Spider's Web
3. Agatha Christie's Black Coffee [Doubleday Direct Large Print Ed.]
4. Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
5. The Unexpected Guest
6. The Unexpected Guest: Novelisation
7. Black Coffee A Hercule Poirot Mystery
8. Murder in Three Stages
9. Black Coffee: Novelisation
10. Black Coffee
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Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Authors: Agatha Christie. Mass Market Paperback, 290 pagesPublisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Publication Date: 1999-09-15 Edition: 1st Reviews :
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.
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Subtitled A Hercule Poirot Novel, Black Coffee is actually an Agatha Christie play recrafted as a book meant to be read rather than seen on the stage. The story was first produced in 1930, and Charles Osborne has done little to it except string the dialogue and stage directions together in paragraph form. Christie loyalists will welcome and applaud his dedication to the original, but it does seem as though he could have given it a bit more flair. Still, Poirot himself, bumbling Captain Hastings, and obsequious George are all in good form and it is amusing to find them engaged in another adventure, with an interesting assortment of possible murderers, blackmailers, and innocent (if suspicious) bystanders. The novel opens as Poirot receives a summons at his breakfast table from England's premier physicist, Sir Claud Amory. Busy working on a new formula necessary for England's defense in the Second World War, Amory suspects a member of his household of espionage. Of course, by the time Poirot and sidekick Hastings arrive at the scientist's country house, he is suddenly and mysteriously dead. Amory himself turns out to have been not quite nice, and his family, regardless of his scientific efforts, is pretty pleased with the new state of affairs. Still, Poirot manages both to save the more amiable members of the household from themselves and to protect the secrets of the British Empire. The novel is warmly evocative of another time and place and a welcome reminder of vintage Christie. --K.A. Crouch...
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Spider's Web
Authors: Agatha Christie. Mass Market Paperback, 304 pagesPublisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Publication Date: 2001-08-13 Edition: 1st Reviews :
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over.Clarissa, the young wife of a foreign office diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends by playing a game she calls "supposing"-imagining a difficult situation and finding out how people would respond. But Clarissa's lighthearted game becomes deadly serious when she discovers the body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that weren't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician. Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help. But before she can get the corpse off the premises, a policeman knocks at her front door. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house...AUTHORBIO: AGATHA CHRISTIE is the author of eighty crime novels and collections of stories, nineteen plays, six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott, two volumes of poetry, a volume of Christmas verse and stories, an autobiography, and Come, Tell Me How You Live. She is the creator of some of the most enduring figures of crime literature as well as the author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Christie was awarded the CBE (Commander, Order of the British Empire) in 1956 and was made a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in 1971. She was president of the Detection Club (1954) and was the first writer to be awarded the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award (1955). Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976.CHARLES OSBORNE is a world authority on theater and opera and has written a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie as well as the novelizations of two of Christie's plays, the bestselling Black Coffee and The Unexpected Guest. He lives in London....
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Agatha Christie's Black Coffee [Doubleday Direct Large Print Ed.]
Authors: Adapted by Charles Osborne.
Hardcover, 289 pages
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publication Date: 1998
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Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
Authors: Charles Osborne. Hardcover, 256 pagesPublisher: Wm Collins & Sons & Co Publication Date: 1982-09 Reviews :
A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie....
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The Unexpected Guest
Authors: Agatha Christie. Hardcover, 210 pagesPublisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Publication Date: 1999-10-01 Reviews :
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over.
Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends and for playing a game she calls "supposing" - imagining a difficult situation and figuring out how people would respond. But Clarissa's lighthearted game becomes deadly serious when she discovers the dead body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that wasn't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician and the attendant scandal of the dead body would irrevocably damage his career at the very least. Therefore, Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help.
But before she can get the body off the premises, a policeman arrives at her front door. The police received an anonymous tip about a murder in the house and have shown up to investigate. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house.
Originally written by Agatha Christie as a play in 1954, now rendered as a novel by Charles Osborne, Spider's Web is a compelling tale of murder and deceit sure to entertain and amuse the legions of Christie's fans worldwide.
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The Unexpected Guest: Novelisation
Authors: Charles Osborne; Agatha Christie.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2000
Edition: Masterpiece Ed
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Black Coffee A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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Mass Market Paperback, pages
Publisher: Editions Du Masque, France
Publication Date: 1998
Edition: First Edition
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Murder in Three Stages
Authors: Agatha Christie.
Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Edition: Omnibus Ed
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Black Coffee: Novelisation
Authors: Charles Osborne; Agatha Christie.
Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Collins Crime
Publication Date: 1998
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Black Coffee
Authors: Agatha Christie.
Unknown Binding, pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 2007-03-05
Edition: Unabridged, Audible Ed
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