Pre-Owned Black Coffee (Paperback) 9780312970079

from mstrust

I would suggest the reader of Black Coffe remind themselves repeatedly that this is not entirely her work and therefore not her fault. There is too much of a feeling of staging for this to work as ...

from bbbart

Again, a nice murder mystery sprouted from Christie's imagination. However, one can tell that this one was particularly written as a theatre play, and only later transcribed into a novel.3 stars is...

from benfulton

I disapprove of authors without the creativity to come up with their own characters. But at least this adaptation doesn't claim to be new prose; it's rather based on a play that Dame Christie wrote...

from storyjunkie

A very quick read, this "novel" shows its origins as a stage production very clearly. As is required for a stage production, there are a limited number of players and layers available to the story,...

from EmScape

I kept thinking that this would make a really excellent play. Come to find out, from the afterword, that it actually was a play, adapted to novel form by the author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha...