Charles Osborne
1) Black coffee
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 7.5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
221 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel based on a 1930s play in which detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a British scientist and the theft of his formula for an atomic explosive. Suspects range from his son, heavily in debt, to an Italian lady spy.
2) Spider's web
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
223 p. : 1 ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clarissa, wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, daydreams about finding a dead body in her drawing-room... and then it becomes reality. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important politician, Clarissa persuades her three houseguests to become accomplices. As the search begins for the murderer in their midst, the house party is interrupted by the arrival of a police inspector, who needs convincing that no murder has...