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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

[Image courtesy : BBC] What is your favourite Miss Marple novel?.  The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.                 said most of the readers in Facebook. What do i think? Read on. Remember Gossington Hall? The famous place where Colonel Arthur Bantry and his wife saw a dead body in the library? Another murder happens in the same house after several years. Is the Gossington hall haunted? St. Mary Mead is no longer a small village and Miss Maple is no longer old. She is older and definitely more wiser.   Marina Gregg, a famous film star has purchased Gossington Hall and in a party hosted by her, Heather Badcock was suddenly found dead due to over dose of Anti depressant Calmo. It was later revealed that Badcock took the Marina’s glass and intended victim was Marina Gregg. Who tried to kill Marina? What is their motive? The answers to all these questions are provided by our very own Miss Mraple. It is int...

Black Coffee - Agatha Christie

                                                             [Image courtesy : Amazon ] Sir Claude, a famous scientist,  requests Hercule Poirot's help to protect the formula of a new explosive he discovered and deliver the same to a office in :London. Claude suspects that one of the inmate of his own house is involved in the mischief. Poirot agrees to help Claude and reaches his house only to find him dead. Now, Poirot is determined to find the truth behind the mysterious death. The setting of the novel is similar to Christie's other novels like Murder on the links,  certain pieces of ABC's of murders, Dumb Witness (though the letter never reached Poirot in the latter case ) etc  where Poirot was invited to solve a case and the invitee is dead before he could arrive.  If you are a fan of Poiro...