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Black Coffee (Theatre)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Black Coffee is a 1930 stage play by Agatha Christie.It takes place at the mansion of Sir Claud Amory, in a suburb of London. It seems that Sir Claud, a physicist, has invented a formula for an explosive of incredible power. One evening Sir Claud assembles together his family and guests, and dramatically announces that the formula has been stolen! He has summoned none other than Hercule Poirot to discover the culprit. Poirot is on his way, but in the meantime, Sir Claud has his butler turn out the lights, offering the thief two minutes of darkness in which to return the formula. When the lights are turned back on, however, the formula is still missing, and Sir Claud is dead, poisoned by an overdose of sedatives in the coffee he was drinking.So Poirot, who shows up soon after this, has to investigate a murder as well as a theft. His suspects include Sir Claud's sister Aunt Caroline, Sir Claud's debt-ridden son Richard, Richard's half-Italian wife Lucia (who has a troubled past), Sir Claud's hard-partying niece Barbara, Sir Claud's assistant Edward Raynor, and Dr. Carelli, a suspicious Italian fellow who knows Lucia and supposedly met her again by accident that very day.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Agatha Christie had a busy secondary career as a playwright, most famously with The Mousetrap, but this is the only Hercule Poirot story written originally for the stage. The Christie estate licensed a novel version by Charles Osborne that was published in 1998; this trope list is based on the original play. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: Sir Claud has invented "amorite", a new explosive with a destructive power orders of magnitude greater than conventional explosives. (Agatha Christie in this 1930 play managed to anticipate that "atomic research" might result in a phenomenally powerful explosive.) | |
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Asshole Victim: Barbara, who is not one for the usual social niceties, says that Sir Claud was a domineering miser and that to some extent everyone's glad he's dead. | |
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Absence of Evidence: The lack of dust on the box of poisons, when everything else on the bookshelf was covered in dust, leads Poirot to conclude that someone had accessed the poison well in advance. | |
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