Nonetheless, her literary agents had advised her to forget the play entirely and she was willing to do so until a friend connected with the theatre suggested that it might be worth producing.Ĭhristie's autobiography claimed that the debut performance of Black Coffee took place at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead. full of cliches, it was, I think, not at all bad". She mentions Black Coffee in her 1977 life story, Autobiography, describing it as "a conventional spy thriller.
According to the foreword to the current HarperCollins edition of Black Coffee in its novelised form, she finished writing the play in late 1929. Quin and her novel The Secret Adversary as The Passing of Mr.
The novelisation was undertaken by the Australian-born writer and classical music critic Charles Osborne, with the endorsement of the Christie estate.Īgatha Christie began writing Black Coffee in 1929, feeling disappointed with the portrayal of Hercule Poirot in the previous year's play Alibi, and being equally dissatisfied with the motion-picture adaptations of her short story The Coming of Mr. In 1998, 22 years after Christie's death, it was re-published in the United Kingdom and the United States in the form of a novel. The successful play was adapted as a film in 1931. The scientist calls Hercule Poirot to investigate, but is murdered just as Poirot arrives with Hastings and Inspector Japp. In the play, a scientist discovers that someone in his household has stolen the formula for an explosive. The first piece that Christie wrote for the stage, it launched a successful second career for her as a playwright. Play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christieīlack Coffee is a play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christie (1890–1976) which was produced initially in 1930.
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