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Summary: A novel that delivers.
Review: This story is true to Agatha Christie's style. A man is murdered and there are plenty of people with opportunity to commit the crime.Most of the action takes place in the library - the only thing that screams "We staged this and cannot change the scenery!" Besides that, the book works marvelously. The only thing that let me down is the rush to reveal the killer. It seemed hurried, and not very fulfilling. A motive was revealed, but it was so easy. The crime could easily have been pinned on anyone. Overall, the book is worth reading, and hard to put down. Easy to enjoy.
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Summary: good mystery
Review: This was my first Agatha Christie novel. I can gladly say it did encourage me to read others. Although it was originally written as a play, it has been well adapted. It was aptly descriptive of the characters, and there was no unnecessary information given. It was linked well, and the story was easy to follow. The author managed to keep the style of Agatha Christie quite well. Good light reading. Certainly good for a first-time fan!
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Summary: Had me Hooked!
Review: Very good book! Had me goin till the end!
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Summary: I give it 3 stars, and still feel I'm too generous.
Review: Well, let's be brief. This novel was first written as a play, and even though Mr. Osborne, I'm sure, did his best to make it look like a novel, it still has the basic characteristics of a play. There is very little description and too much dialogue. The sets are limited to a single room, just as in a play. My impression is that Mr. Osborne tried to remain as close as possible to Agatha Christie's original play. Yet he could have been a little more imaginative, and I'm sure it only could have made the book more interesting to read. As for the plot (without giving it away), let's just say that the mystery was easy to solve. To say the least, part of the solution had already been used by Agatha Christie in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles." Therefore, the publication of "Black Coffee" as a novel cannot be really justified, since this second-rate Christie material, for the most part, had already been used before in other Christie novels. Making a novel out of "Black Coffee" is useless. It's just the same as if someone wanted to write a novel version of Christie's play "Alibi," when the latter is already based on her novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd".
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Summary: Completely Shocked!
Review: Well, Osborne broke the fundamental, essential rule of mystery writing. Never give away the murderer, at least so early into the story. It's astounding. I kept expecting some kind of twist at the end to account for that "slip up" and was shocked to discover that there was none! Unbelievable.
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Summary: bleah
Review: Who are the yahoos that gave this five stars? Have they ever read any real Agatha Christie novels? Why do people keep doing this? Why "Poodle Springs," "Scarlett," and "Black Coffee?" The only possible explanation can be to dupe fans of well loved authors into buying sad imitations in order to make a quick buck. The second Osborne gave his ham handed description of the people at the dinner party, I thought to myself "the secretary did it." And guess what--I was right, something that would NEVER happen had Dame Agatha herself written this. And yes, I know I've spoiled the ending, and I'm glad, if in doing so I've saved you the 7 bucks plus shipping you might otherwise have egregiously wasted on this trite novelty piece. As for me, I'm glad I bought it used.
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Summary: Intresting and intriging
Review: You will never figure out who did untill you reach the end of the book. Personally, I suspected two people, so as other characters in this book.
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