Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee features on of her most famous detectives, the Belgian Hercule Poirot. In Black Coffee, Poirot cunningly absorbs clues to solve the murder of eccentric inventor of a new weapons formula – Sir Claude Amory. Like all of Christie’s stories, the cast is filled with the colorful, suspicious characters she takes delight in exhibiting. Black Coffee features a plot with the clever twists we’ve come to expect of the world’s greatest murder mystery author. Black Coffee is her first play, initially produced in 1930.