Incognito Theatre presents Black Coffee by Agatha Christie

Black Coffee is a play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christie. The first piece that Christie wrote for the stage, it launched a successful second career for her as a playwright. This three-act Poirot thriller – a superbly crafted whodunit with endless red herrings, subplots of infamous spies and an astonishingly prophetic storyline about weapons created through “bombarding the atom” – is one of Christie’s most gripping country house murder mysteries. In the play, the scientist calls the famous Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot to investigate, but just as Poirot arrives with Hastings and Inspector Japp, someone in the household is murdered…

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