{"product_id":"9780312970079","title":"Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNearly 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, \u003ci\u003eBlack Coffee\u003c\/i\u003e brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his \"little grey cells\" one more deliciously deductive time... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012688789744,"sku":"9780312970079","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312970079_p0.jpg?v=1763677778","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312970079","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}