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**Agatha Christie**

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__**The Body in the Library**__

If one thought that being woken up early in the morning and being told that there was a body in their library, only to find out it was true, wasn't bad enough, then the events that follow in Agaha Christie's novel "The Body in the Library" will surely shock anyone. Colonel and Mrs. Bantry are awakened early one morning by a maid and told that the body of a platinum blond has been found dead via strangulation in the library while the staff was in the middle of the daily routine. No one has ever seen the girl nor do they know her. Mrs. Bantry, fearful of town gossip and the possible incrimination of her husband, calls in her good friend Miss Jane Marple. The prime suspect is the Bantry's snobbish young neighbor, Basil Blake, a film technician, who enjoys to party and has an air-tight alibi thanks o his girlfriemd. It's eventually revealed that the body is that of Miss Ruby Keene, a professional dancer at a hotel in a neighboring county. As, Miss Marple closes in on the culprit, another body turns up, badly burned. Can the culprit be caught before another turns up dead? Only Miss Marple and time can tell.... -Kyra Byrne

__**Black Coffee**__

Although Agatha Christie had originally written it as a play, it was adapted to a novel years later by Charles Osborne. This mystery chronicles the adventures of Hercule Poirot. Called up by a friend, Sir Claud Amory, Hercule poirot is requested to come to Sir Amory's aide and help him to protect and send out a secret formula that he has been working diligently to perfect and plans to send to the Ministry of Defense. Poirot and his friend, Captain Hastings, arrive too late and find that SIr Amory is dead and the formula has been stolen. It is later revealed that a member of Amory's own family had poisoned his coffee while at a party. With World War II spies at any and every corner, will Poirot be able to find the formula before it slips into the wrong hands or will some horrible fate befall Hercule Poirot? -Kyra Byrne