Black Coffee - Play
A physicist dies after consuming a poisoned beverage. Enter Hercule Poirot, one of Christie’s most beloved sleuths, to solve the mystery.
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Accomplished physicist Sir Claud Amory has constructed a workable formula for one of the most deadly weapons known to man – the atom bomb. Hercule Poirot, with the help of Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp, is called in after the formula is mysteriously stolen and Sir Claud is callously murdered.
It's exactly as Agatha Christie – and Poirot – should be. I'm totally in the dark, in every way, but having fun.Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Black Coffee was Agatha Christie’s first
play script. It opened in 1930 at the Embassy Theatre in London, before
being transferred to the West End in April of the same year. It ran for several
months at St. Martin’s Theatre, where
The Mousetrap has since been running
since 1974.