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Book Review of Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, Bk 7)

Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, Bk 7)
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At the urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing form London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears that a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defence. 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 own lips.