Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts(1930)
Αχιλλέας ΚυριαζήςAgatha Christie
An intriguing story concerning a physicist named Sir Claud Amory who has come up with a formula for an atomic bomb.
In the first act, Sir Claud is poisoned (in his coffee, naturally) and Hercule Poirot is called upon to solve the case. He does so after many wonderful twists and turns in true Christie tradition.
Librarian's note #1: 'Black Coffee' was written in 1930; that's fifteen years before the use of two such bombs brought an end to WW2.
Librarian's note #2: this is the first of several plays written by Christie, of which the best known is 'The Mousetrap'. Some of the plays, such as this one, have been novelized by other authors and can be found elsewhere on Goodreads.
Infos
142
English
1/1/1930
9780573618857
0573618852
Abbot's Cleve, England
Hercule Poirot Series
BOOK 0.001
The Chess Problem: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.01
The Chocolate Box
BOOK 0.02
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
BOOK 0.03
The Lemesurier Inheritance
BOOK 0.04
The Affair at the Victory Ball
BOOK 0.05
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.06
The Plymouth Express: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.07
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: A Short Story
BOOK 0.08
The Submarine Plans: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.09
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.10
The Cornish Mystery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.11
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.12
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.13
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.14
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.16
The King of Clubs: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.17
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.18
The Double Clue: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.19
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.20
The Case of the Missing Will: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.21
The Lost Mine: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.22
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.23
The Veiled Lady: A Short Story
BOOK 0.24
The Adventure of "The Western Star": a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.25
Double Sin
BOOK 0.27
The Third-Floor Flat: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.28
The Under Dog: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.29
Wasps' Nest: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.30
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.31
How Does Your Garden Grow?: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.32
Dead Man's Mirror: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.33
Problem at Sea: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.34
Triangle at Rhodes: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.35
The Incredible Theft: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.36
Murder in the Mews: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.37
Yellow Iris: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.38
The Dream: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.39
The Nemean Lion: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.40
The Lernean Hydra: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.41
The Arcadian Deer: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.42
The Erymanthian Boar: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.45
The Cretan Bull: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.46
The Horses of Diomedes: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.47
The Girdle of Hyppolita: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.48
The Flock of Geryon: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.49
The Apples of Hesperides: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.50
The Capture of Cerberus: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.51
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
BOOK 0.52
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
BOOK 1
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
BOOK 10
Murder on the Orient Express
BOOK 11
Three Act Tragedy
BOOK 12
Death in the Clouds
BOOK 13
The A.B.C. Murders
BOOK 14
Murder in Mesopotamia
BOOK 15
Cards on the Table
BOOK 16
Murder in the Mews
BOOK 17
Dumb Witness
BOOK 18
Death on the Nile
BOOK 19
Appointment with Death
BOOK 2
The Murder on the Links
BOOK 20
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
BOOK 21
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
BOOK 22
Sad Cypress
BOOK 23
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
BOOK 24
Evil Under the Sun
BOOK 25
Five Little Pigs
BOOK 26
The Hollow
BOOK 27
The Labours of Hercules
BOOK 28
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
BOOK 29
Taken at the Flood
BOOK 3
Poirot Investigates
BOOK 30
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
BOOK 31
The Under Dog and Other Stories
BOOK 32
Mrs. McGinty's Dead
BOOK 33
After the Funeral
BOOK 34
Hickory Dickory Dock
BOOK 35
Dead Man's Folly
BOOK 36
Cat Among the Pigeons
BOOK 37
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
BOOK 38
Double Sin and Other Stories
BOOK 39
The Clocks
BOOK 4
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
BOOK 40
Third Girl
BOOK 41
Hallowe'en Party
BOOK 42
Elephants Can Remember
BOOK 43
Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries
BOOK 44
Curtain
BOOK 45
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
BOOK 46
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
BOOK 47
While the Light Lasts
BOOK 5
The Big Four
BOOK 6
The Mystery of the Blue Train
BOOK 7
Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts
BOOK 7.5
Black Coffee
BOOK 8
Peril at End House
BOOK 9
Lord Edgware Dies
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