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Review Date: 10/31/2010
Originally written as a stage play it amazes me how well Black Coffee has been adapted as a novel in which Hercule Poirot retains his personality as Christies most famous and beloved detective. The story takes place in the spring of 1934 when Poirot is urgently invited to the home of Sir Claud Armory. With a limited number of players it seems it would be easy for the reader to determine the outcome, but you will not be disappointed in this one. Agatha Christie has a special knack for keeping the reader guessing right to the end.
Review Date: 8/7/2010
Now a beautiful rich woman Hollys vocation brings her back to Edenton, North Carolina, the site of her first summer love when she was thirteen and where she discovered her lifes ambition. She reconnects with Bell Chere the plantation house which is much in need of repair and Lorrie Beaumont her first serious love who inherited the Revolutionary-period estate. Before she actually gets to Belle Chere or Lorrie, her perfectly planned life takes a side track crossing paths with the attractive and sexy Nick Taggert who comes with secrets of his own. The story moves along well with just enough intrigue and romance to keep you guessing what will happen next.
Review Date: 7/10/2010
I read her second book, Belong to Me, previously. This book got off to a slow start but picked-up after chapter 10 once I recognized the characters.
Review Date: 12/29/2010
Miss Julia is a recently bereaved widow discovering her personal freedom after years of marriage to a dominating Southern gentleman. She soon learns that her husband left a few surprises besides his financial wealth. You will enjoy how she outwits her neighbors and the church going community some who think that she is an easy target and have their own plans for her inheritance. This is the first book in a series and I enjoyed getting to know the crazy comic characters. I am looking froward to the arrival of book # 2 from PBS.
Review Date: 7/8/2015
This is the first Lora Roberts novel I have read. Liz Sullivan gives the reader a surprising point of view and took me somewhere I haven't been before in a mystery novel and I have read many. I have ordered three more Lora Roberts books in the hopes that they each teach me something new as well as "Murder in a Nice Neighborhood" succeed in doing.
Review Date: 10/26/2010
Fun to read. Kept me guessing. I thought I figured out the ending...but I didn't.Agatha Christie fans will find her at her best in The Mystery of the Blue Train.
Review Date: 6/5/2012
In the Regatta Mystery, a diamond worth several fortunes is stolen as a dinner trick, and then stolen form the theif. A collection of 9 Agatha Christie mysteries for your enjoyment as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple keep you guessing who done it.
Review Date: 10/28/2010
Roberta Jewett lives her life with gusto drawing on an inner strength that is admirable. As a divorced women before women's lib she is looked upon as an outcast and worse by her neighbors when she returns to her hometown to raise her childen. She is a single mom before the term single mom was coined. She does it her way and you will admire her values and the high road she takes in the summer of 1916.
Review Date: 6/12/2011
M. Hurcule Poirot the hero of every Agatha Christie fan is brought to life as he uses his little grey cells to solve the nine mysteries within the pages of The Under Dog and Other short stories. There is less time in the short story format to develop the intrigue allowed in an entire book. Therefore Captain Hastings, Poirot's life long friend, guides the reader along with his sometimes critical, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious narration of each situation. This book is enjoyable in a format suited for summer reading.
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