Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three ActsMystery/Thriller Characters: 10 males, 3 females Interior Set This little known mystery will surprise and delight Christie fans. The story concerns a physicist named Sir Claude Amory who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb (Black Coffee was written in 1934!). In the first act, Sir Claude is poisoned (in his coffee, naturally) and Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the case. He does so after many wonderful twists and turns in true Christie tradition. |
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Amory's armchair Atropine Aunt Caroline BARBARA moves Beeswax beg your pardon bookcase box of drugs Captain Hastings CARELLI moves chair cigarette closes the door coffee cup coffee table course CURTAIN dear dinner door up L downstage end Dr Carelli DR GRAHAM enters up L eyes father fireplace formula french windows Genoa girl glass gramophone hand handbag HASTINGS moves Hercule Poirot Inspector Japp Italian JOHNSON last night leans forward LUCIA enters LUCIA moves LUCIA rises madame mademoiselle mantelpiece mean minutes Monsieur Poirot moving to POIROT pause POIROT moves POIROT rises poisoned RAYNOR enters RAYNOR moves RICHARD enters RICHARD moves rises and moves sal volatile Satan's Whisker Selma Goetz settee and sits shakes his head Sir Claud Amory slowly smiling sorry speak Strychnine suitcase tablets tell things tin box TREDWELL enters turns upstage end voice