BLACK COFFEE (Hercule Poirot Series #7.5) by AGATHA CHRISTIE Adapted by Charles Osborne (Pgs 304)
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.
Adapted from an Agatha Christie play, it is one of the few Hercule Poirot books that I hadn't ever read before.
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