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Black Coffee is a play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christie which was produced initially in 1930. The first piece that Christie wrote for the stage, it launched a successful second career for her as a playwright. In the play, a scientist discovers that someone in his household has stolen the formula for an explosive.
In looking for something special and relatively unknown to celebrate the opening, Fischbach contacted Agatha Christie Limited, who handle the author's rights, and was told by its chairman (and Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard) that the only relatively unknown stage work that could be performed was the 1930s play A Daughter's a Daughter ...
The Unexpected Guest is a novelization by Charles Osborne of the 1958 play of the same name by crime fiction writer Agatha Christie and was first published in the UK by HarperCollins on 6 September 1999, and on 1 October 1999 in the US by St. Martin's Press.
The story first appeared in book form in the UK in the 1982 collection The Agatha Christie Hour (ISBN 0-00-231-3316) to tie in with a dramatisation of the story in the television series of the same name. The Love Detectives: First published in issue 236 of The Story-Teller magazine in December 1926 under the title of At the Crossroads.
The play is based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile which in itself started off as a play which Christie called Moon on the Nile.Once written, she decided it would do better as a book and she only resurrected the play version in 1942 when she was in the middle of writing the theatrical version of And Then There Were None and her actor friend Francis L. Sullivan was looking for a play in ...
Japp is played by Melville Cooper in the 1931 film adaptation of Christie's stage play Black Coffee. As the inspector's name is spelled similarly and pronounced in the same way as the ethnic slur Jap , he was renamed Inspector Sharp ( シャープ警部 , Shaapu-kebu ) in the Japanese anime series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and ...
Double Sin and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1961 and retailed for $3.50. [1] The collection contains eight short stories and was not published in the UK; however all of the stories were published in other UK collections (see UK book appearances of ...
Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 July 1937 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client.